In the thick of earnings season, markets swayed with a flurry of mixed reports from banks and industrials. For the week, the S&P 500 climbed 0.9%. The MSCI All Country World Index (ACWI), which includes U.S. and international stock markets, rose 0.6%, and the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bo …
Geopolitics, earnings and inflation news dominated the global investment environment this week. While earnings news was generally positive, higher geopolitical risk and inflation helped push U.S. markets lower. The S&P 500 fell 1.1% through Thursday and the Dow Jones Industrial Average …
During the past week, movement in the equity markets was largely dictated by the release of the minutes from last month’s Federal Reserve meeting. Two major themes stood out with the first being the gradual reduction of the Fed’s massive $4.5 trillion balance sheet. The second is that certa …
Over the past week, the uncertainty surrounding President Trump’s policy-making has shifted to his ability to institute tax reform and establish infrastructure expenditures. While many investors expected a major sell-off on the fallout surrounding the failure of Trump’s healthcare bill in C …
