March 13, 2023
Panic Not Required
The Banking Industry We want to address what happened last week in the banking industry and explain why the market had such a tough week. Last week the S&P 500...
March 6, 2023
Can the Market Hold the Line?
Interest Rates and Market Performance With the treasury yields spiking higher the past few weeks, we've had some questions about higher interest rates and market performance. We looked back from...
February 27, 2023
Inflation and Market Volatility
The Economy and The Fed The Fed’s “preferred” inflation gauge, the Personal Consumption Expenditures or PCE, not only came in worse than expected, but the prior three months were...
February 17, 2023
Behind the Screens
You don’t want to miss this week’s special episode of Investors’ Insights, where Greg Powell and Trey Booth answer a popular question that we often hear, “What is the purpose...
February 13, 2023
Romance with Inflation
Core CPI This week's market-moving event could be when the consumer price index report comes out on Tuesday. Expectations are that the annual price growth decelerated to 6.2%...
February 6, 2023
Golden Cross
Technical Analysis After a strong January for the markets, the question is, can the rally continue? Fortunately, technical analysis helps us answer this question. One bullish market development that...
January 30, 2023
Fed Fury
Interest Rate Hikes For the last few years, the market has been 100% focused on what the Federal Reserve was going to do. During Covid, it was very stimulative,...
January 23, 2023
Charts Don’t Lie
Market Update We want to give a quick update on where the market stands as we head into a very important week of corporate earnings. The S&P 500 has...
January 9, 2023
2023 and You
Historical Markets One of the best ways you could describe the 2022 year is with the word volatility. This occurred in the stock and bond market. We saw the...
December 19, 2022
The Fed Grinch
Inflation Data The Consumer Price Index (CPI) report that measures inflation ended up being a nice Christmas surprise. The report came in at 7.1%, beating the expectation of 7.3%....