Investing for Life
Please note: This update was prepared on Friday, October 15, 2021, before the market’s close. Benjamin Franklin famously quipped, “Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.” For pundits and policymakers, the whiff of higher inflation, which appeared to be on the way out over the summer, raised a stink this …
Read More keyboard_arrow_rightBenjamin Franklin famously quipped, “Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.” For pundits and policymakers, the whiff of higher inflation, which appeared to be on the way out over the summer, raised a stink this week and threatened to linger longer. The consumer price index, which measures what consumers pay …
Read More keyboard_arrow_rightPlease note: This update was prepared on Friday, October 8, 2021, prior to the market’s close. Merry-go-round markets were up and down all week. While a disastrous day for Facebook catalyzed a sell-off on Monday, a temporary truce in D.C.’s debt-ceiling debate helped return them to near record highs midweek. That optimism …
Read More keyboard_arrow_rightMerry-go-round markets were up and down all week. While a disastrous day for Facebook catalyzed a sell-off on Monday, a temporary truce in D.C.’s debt-ceiling debate helped return them to near record highs midweek. That optimism was tempered by a surprising report on the U.S. job market this morning. Between private businesses, …
Read More keyboard_arrow_rightPlease note: This update was prepared on Friday, October 1, 2021, prior to the market’s close. A rocky month’s end for stocks and bonds on top of Capitol Hill’s muddled sausage-making has the news media once again breaking out its Chicken Little routine. But is the investment sky really falling this time? …
Read More keyboard_arrow_rightA rocky month’s end for stocks and bonds on top of Capitol Hill’s muddled sausage-making has the news media once again breaking out its Chicken Little routine. But is the investment sky really falling this time? Hardly. The S&P 500 was down 4.8% in September, its largest monthly decline since the pandemic …
Read More keyboard_arrow_rightPlease note: This update was prepared on Friday, September 24, 2021, before the market’s close. The week got off to a shaky start as a looming default by Chinese property developer Evergrande had economists and talking heads debating whether it would turn out to be a “Lehman moment” that could imperil the …
Read More keyboard_arrow_rightThe week got off to a shaky start as a looming default by Chinese land giant Evergrande had economists and talking heads debating whether it would turn out to be a “Lehman moment” that could imperil the entire Chinese economy. But unlike Lehman Brothers during the 2008 Great Financial Crisis, Evergrande’s chances …
Read More keyboard_arrow_rightPlease note: This update was prepared on Friday, September 17, 2021, before the market’s close. A recipe for rampant stock market volatility might look something like this: Put a heaping cup of global pandemic into an iron pot, add a dash of the highest inflation in decades, stir in threats of a …
Read More keyboard_arrow_rightPlease note: This update was prepared on Friday, September 10, 2021, before the market’s close. A note from Chairman Dan Wiener: September 11 marked the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks and losses of life in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C. The memories are difficult, and the news media is already …
Read More keyboard_arrow_rightPlease note: This update was prepared on Friday, September 3, 2021, before the market’s close. Maybe the economy isn’t recovering as fast as economists and policymakers believe. Job creation slowed dramatically in August, with just 235,000 new jobs created—a far cry from the 720,000 economists had anticipated and, we hope, not an …
Read More keyboard_arrow_rightPlease note: This update was prepared on Friday, August 27, 2021, before the market’s close. The devastating news out of Kabul made for somber headlines across the globe this morning, but from a market perspective, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s virtual speech today was front and center. Powell again reinforced that the …
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