Posts Tagged ‘interest rates’
Market Update 1-24-2022
The rough start to 2022 continued for the stock market last week. What’s driving it? Rising interest rates and commodity prices, the start of Q4 earnings season, and weakening jobless claims data. We also got the start of December housing data last week too. Get more details below for this week’s market update or listen…
Read More >>>Market Update 1-17-2022
The stock market has had a rough start in 2022. And this week’s economic releases added to the downward pressure: December inflation is up again, weekly jobless claims are rising, and December retail sales were down too, as interest rates have begun their rise. Get more details below for this week’s market update or listen…
Read More >>>5 Key Challenges to Watch Driving the 2022 Financial Outlook
If any of us had an actual crystal ball to give us the 2022 financial outlook, we’d be billionaires… but the reality is there are a lot of unique, atypical, and historically unprecedented economic and financial data points right now. So, what can we expect economically and financially in 2022? There are 5 key challenges…
Read More >>>Monday Market Update 5-24-2021
The market was a bit mixed last week. Inflation and rising interest rates continued to pressure the market early in the week, while improving jobless claims numbers led to some market recovery on Thursday. We also got the Fed’s minutes from their April meeting, some insights into negotiations on the American Jobs Plan, aka Biden’s…
Read More >>>This Week in the Market 5-17-2021
Earnings season just about wrapped up last week… but the biggest market impact of the week came from the CPI report. Despite everyone predicting it was coming, now that we actually see inflation in the reported data, the market didn’t like it too much. We also saw flat retail sales number for April too. To…
Read More >>>Weekly Market Review 5-10-2021
Earnings season continued last week… but the two biggest market impacts of the week came from unexpected sources. First, a big negative surprise from the April Employment numbers drove markets…up? And crypto fans eagerly awaited Elon Musk’s host appearance on SNL and were likely not happy with what he had to say. It’s all outlined…
Read More >>>Weekly Market Summary 5-3-2021
Last week saw the peak of earnings season, a plethora of economic data releases, a speech by the President to a joint session of Congress with more spending plans… all leading to a second consecutive flat week for the market. So what are we hearing from executives this earnings season, what is the economic data…
Read More >>>5 Factors Driving Higher Inflation & What You Should Do to Prepare
For the last month or so, as the stock market rally has faltered, and longer-term interest rates have increased by more than 50% since the start of the year, the concerns and whispers from the market over higher inflation have grown louder and louder. So what exactly is inflation? Why are people suddenly more worried…
Read More >>>Where Should You Keep An Emergency Fund?
The first major step on the Family Finance Road Map to free yourself from credit cards and adding to your debt is to build an Emergency Fund. But where to keep that emergency fund is this week’s follower Ask Me Anything topic. Every day, I get lots of great questions from followers across social media,…
Read More >>>What Every Borrower Should Know About Why Interest Rates Change
If you have interest rate exposure – either through debt you pay interest on OR investments you earn interest from – you need to understand why interest rates change. You will learn what an interest rate is, what factors affect interest rates, how to read an interest rate yield curve, and more. Why Do Interest…
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