Weekly Insight | January 19, 2022
The S&P 500 lost 4.08% this week. This loss comes as investors react to the increased likelihood of contractionary monetary policy from
The S&P 500 lost 4.08% this week. This loss comes as investors react to the increased likelihood of contractionary monetary policy from
Equities remain weak to begin the year, although they managed to bounce back to end the week green. The S&P 500 was up 0.6% with
U.S. equity markets have welcomed us into 2022 with major market moves. Apparently, volatility is the appropriate New Year’s gift in
Global equities were up on the week in the range of 1-2% with broad participation across market cap and region. Stocks are now in the real
There was a little more housing activity than expected in November. Most of the housing data reported this week came in better than
Despite a big rebound to the end the week, equities were trying to get back lost ground. As we have noted earlier, the breadth has seen
November was another month where the unemployment rate came in better than expected. The rate of 4.2% shows continued employment gains
Equity markets took a sharp drop this week, which was kickstarted by the worst Black Friday return ever. New virus concerns didn’t help
Durable orders decreased for the second month in a row. The October drop of 0.5% or $1.2 billion was driven by a decrease in the ordering
Retail sales in October were the highest they have ever been. The increase of 1.7% outpaced the expected increase of 1.2%. The largest
Equity markets maintained their post Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting gains whereas bond yields reversed course and headed
Equity markets were up every day this week as small caps staged a huge breakout. Equities rallied into the Federal Open Market Committee