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Financial planning is a critical element for the success of any private business owner. It provides a roadmap for achieving both short-term and long-term goals and ensures the financial health of the business.… Read More
The week in review– Retail sales: +0.60% m/m– Retail sales ex-auto: +0.40% m/m
The week ahead– 4Q23 real GDP (first estimate)– Markit PMIs (prelim.)
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Over the past two years, the Federal Reserve’s aggressive monetary tightening lifted short-term interest rates to theirhighest levels since the early 2000s. As a result, investors pounced on cash-like products for both safety and incomein 2023, pushing money market fund assets to a record high $5.98 trillion, and this number is still climbing.… Read More
Markets finished the year strong, with positive returns across most major asset classes in December. Investors reactedpositively to the Federal Reserve’s dovish comments regarding monetary policy, with interest rate cuts potentially comingsooner in 2024 rather than later.
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After a brutal 2022, investors were delighted in 2023 as markets were driven higher by a stronger-than-expected economy, falling inflation, and light at the end of the tunnel with respect to the Federal Reserve’s interest rate hiking cycle.
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After moving sideways during the first half of 2023, the dollar continued its decline to end 2% down in 2023 (now-11% from its October 2022 peak). In fact, it depreciated against almost every major DM currency except theJapanese yen. After over 10 years of dollar strength, could this be the start of a new cycle?… Read More
2023 market returns presented a mirror image to the declines of 2022. Despite recession fears stoked by tightmonetary policy, banking sector hiccups and elevated geopolitical tensions, all asset classes, save one, experiencedpositive returns.
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Christmas appears to have come early this year, as investors were given much to celebrate this holiday season.Most notably, at the most recent FOMC meeting, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell and his fellow Federal Reservecolleagues “gifted” investors with a “turtle” dovish pivot, sparking a rally in both stocks and bonds.… Read More
2023 stands in sharp contrast to 2022. In 2022, stocks and bonds declined by double digits. Investor sentiment suggested more of the same for 2023.
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