Weekly Market Update – March 4, 2022

Weekly Market Update – March 4, 2022

Quick Takes The conflict in Ukraine has intensified and the humanitarian aspect has become much more dire. Stock indices around the world declined, reflecting the deterioration of the situation, and the increased downside risk it poses to global inflation and growth....
Monthly Market Update — February 2022

Monthly Market Update — February 2022

Market Performance Summary It was another difficult month for bond and equity investors. After watching virtually all major asset classes fall in January, February brought a similar trend, though at a lesser magnitude. Inflation anxieties remain but geopolitical risks...
Weekly Market Update – March 4, 2022

Weekly Market Update – February 25, 2022

Quick Takes It was a troubling week as Russia began a full-scale invasion of Ukraine triggering one of the worst military crises in Europe in decades. Given the complexity of the situation with waves of sanctions being issued by Western allies and various reports of...
Russia Invades (Again)

Russia Invades (Again)

On December 27, 1979, millions of Americans grabbed their morning coffee, walked outside to get the paper, opened it up and saw this headline: This was the beginning of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The world condemned it. There was conjecture that this was the...
Weekly Market Update – March 4, 2022

Weekly Market Update – February 18, 2022

Quick Takes Equities continued to struggle amid elevated geopolitical risks and expectations for tighter monetary policies as inflation pressures persist ahead of next month’s Fed meeting. Virtually all major global equity indices were down -1% or more, deepening the...
Weekly Market Update – March 4, 2022

Weekly Market Update – February 11, 2022

Quick Takes Stocks continue their choppy trading, getting whipsawed in the past week by a hotter-than-expected consumer inflation report, surprisingly hawkish comments from St. Louis Fed President James Bullard, and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan’s...