The second quarter of 2024 began with an economy experiencing the effects of persistent inflation elements, partly due to ongoing deficit spending and rising
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As we leave the 2nd quarter there are more and more signs the economy is starting to look a bit weaker than earlier this year. GDP has fallen every quarter
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Investments may be packed into many different types of vehicles. Learn about investment products, their tax treatment and your next steps.
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Executive Summary: Many recessionary signals are present in the economy, including an inverted yield curve, restrictive monetary policy, falling leading
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What the 4 th Quarter Giveth, the 1 st Quarter Taketh An investing theme we often reference is the regime switching model, where markets often vacillate
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Rates March Higher Strategy In October of 2023 we wrote that a recession is coming. This was based on a number of very reliable recession indicators. It was
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The Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index closed Friday at a new all–time high, ending the first quarter of the year with a gain of 10%. That’s as much as large
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The Standard & Poor’s 500 index soared 2.3% last week and is on track to close the first quarter of 2024 with a gain of more than 10% — more than four times the
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Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase, the largest U.S. bank, warned that a “hurricane” was about to hit the U.S. economy in June 2022, and Ray Dalio, founder of
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It was a big week for federal government data. Here are six charts encapsulating the latest news on economic fundamentals driving investment prices. The U.S
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The picture of the week capturing current economic trend this week comes from the New York Federal Reserve Bank’s Nowcast released Friday March 1, 2024. The
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The Conference Board (TCB), the big business think tank that maintains the U.S. Index of Leading Economic Indicators (LEI), backed off its prediction for a
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