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Last Week in Review: Inflation Remains High, Markets Looking Forward This past week, we witnessed the highest consumer inflation reading in 40 years and the markets responded. Let's walk through what happened and investigate the week ahead. Consumer Prices Still Rising On Thursday, the Personal Consumption Index (CPI) was reported at 8.2%, which was higher […]

Last Week in Review: Bank of England Blinks, Interest Rates Sink This past week, we watched the sharpest one-day decline in Treasury rates since 2008. The rate relief was relatively short-lived as uncertainty and volatility reign supreme in the financial markets. Let's recap what happened and investigate the big news in the week ahead. Last […]

Last Week in Review: Three Things We Learned From Federal Reserve This past week, the Federal Reserve raised the Fed Funds Rate by .75% and issued its quarterly economic projections. In response, home loan rates ticked up to a new 2022 high. Let's discuss three things we learned from the Fed Meeting and what to […]

Last Week in Review: Prices Still Rising, Fed Still Hiking We saw some surprisingly hot inflation numbers which hurt the financial markets and pushed rates to the highest levels of 2022. Let's walk through what happened and look into the week ahead. Inflation Remains High Last Tuesday the Consumer Price Index (CPI) was released, and […]

Last Week in Review: Financial Markets Attempt to Stabilize After several weeks of higher rates and lower stocks, the financial markets stabilized a bit. Let's walk through what happened and look into the week ahead. When Words Don't Matter "I am more focused on if balance sheet reduction will affect liquidity in markets than impact […]

Last Week in Review: What's Happening in The Markets? The financial markets had a rough week, with stocks falling and rates spiking since Fed Chair Powell spoke in Jackson Hole. Let's walk through what happened and look into the week ahead. "While higher interest rates, slower growth, and softer labor market conditions will bring down […]

Last Week in Review: Rising Rates and New Home Sales August has not been kind to bonds and interest rates. Even though the Federal Reserve did not hold a meeting in August and is not slated to raise rates again until the end of September, long-term rates moved higher. Let's break down what happened and […]

Last Week in Review: We Are Going to Jackson For the past couple of weeks, interest rates remained within a range and haven't moved higher or lower, seemingly waiting for the next big market event. That event could be soon as Central Bankers around the globe and our Fed Chair Jerome Powell are set to […]

Last Week in Review: Inflation Cools, Market Drools This past week an important reading on consumer inflation showed that we might have seen inflation peak in July. In response, the financial markets celebrated with stocks shooting higher and long-term rates ticking lower from the previous week's highs. The highly anticipated Consumer Price Index (CPI) was […]

Last Week In Review: Fed Rate Hikes Push Home Loan Rates Lower Last week home loan rates continued to gradually improve since the Fed hiked rates by .75% in both June and July. The elevated chance of a recession and the Fed hiking rates into the slowing economy has pushed rates to the best levels […]