We expect that more of the Fed's talking heads will be talking this week about monetary policy perhaps with a…
The latest federal budget data were released last week. Over the past 12 months through December, the deficit was $1.4 trillion…
Last year, we thought that the S&P 500's bear market might have bottomed at 3666 on June 16,…
The S&P 500 is back testing its 200-day moving average (chart). It previously did so on November 30, but failed…
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Yesterday, the World Bank slashed its 2023 global economic growth rate outlook to 1.7% from its earlier projection of 3.0%…
We still see greater odds that the economy will glide to a soft landing (60%) than plummet to a hard one (40%…
December's NFIB survey of small business owners should make the Fed's hawks a bit less hawkish. They want…
Consumers have cut back on spending on goods because they went on a goods-buying binge on them during 2020 and 2021, when…
The Q4-2022 earnings reporting season starts this week with the big money center banks. They are unlikely to surprise investors. Their managements…
We asked Joe Feshbach, our go-to market trading maven for his latest thoughts on the stock market as the new year begins.…
Both the stock and bond markets cheered this morning's batch of economic indicators. For starters, payroll employment rose 223,000…
