07|02|2025
Monthly Market Monitor | June – 2025
Monitoring the Markets this last month was some fun for sure. Gains mounted from May into a strong June. Can those gains be sustained? Fixed Income: 2-Yr Treas Yield...
07|01|2025
Picking Up Steam | June 27, 2025
Markets saw opportunities this week for a rally. Could this growth cycle be picking up steam? Monday S&P 500 0.96% | NASDAQ 0.94% Markets responded optimistically as hopes...
06|30|2025
Leading Indicator Watch | June 27, 2025
Consumer Goods & Materials: Core PCE Price Index, which excludes food and energy, rose 0.2% (MoM)(May), with the annual reading increasing from 2.6% (Apr) to 2.7% (May). Both figures...
06|25|2025
Wild Ride | June 20, 2025
It was a wild ride last week, but markets remained with little change through it all. Will that wild ride continue? Monday S&P 500 0.94% | NASDAQ 1.52% Markets...
06|16|2025
Leading Indicator Watch | June 13, 2025
Consumer Goods & Materials: Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 0.1% (MoM)(May), with the annual reading increasing from 2.3% (Apr) to 2.4% (May), which was better than expected. Producer Price...
06|09|2025
Leading Indicator Watch | June 6, 2025
Unemployment: Nonfarm Payrolls declined from 147K (Apr) to 139K (May), but were higher than forecast. The unemployment rate remained steady at 4.2% for the third consecutive month, indicating resilience...
06|04|2025
Monthly Market Monitor | May – 2025
Monitoring equity markets this last month was easy as things climbed, The Fixed Income market was a bit different. What does it mean for the remainder of the year?...
06|02|2025
Leading Indicator Watch | May 30, 2025
Consumer Goods & Materials: Core PCE Price Index settled at 2.5% (YoY)(Apr), the lowest reading since 2021 for the Federal Reserve’s preferred measure of inflation. The monthly measurement remained...
05|27|2025
Leading Indicator Watch | May 23, 2025
Yield Curve: Yields ended higher for the 4th straight week. 2-year yields rose from 3.98% to 4.00%. 10-year yields climbed from 4.43% to 4.51%, pushing down the prices of...