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Market Update | March 13, 2023
The leading financial news story of the past five days has been the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. It is the largest bank to fail in


Market Update | February 27, 2023
Minutes from the Federal Reserve’s meeting concluding February 1 were released last Thursday, February 23. The minutes indicated that nearly all members of the Federal Open


Market Update | February 13, 2023
Inflation has been cooling since the middle part of 2022 according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Producer Price Index


Market Update | January 30, 2023
The past couple of weeks in economic news provided something for everyone. There was enough new economic data to support both the “recession is coming” and


Market Update | January 18, 2023
The December inflation report had some encouraging news. It showed that consumer prices trended lower for the month, but more importantly, it confirmed that overall prices


Market Update | December 19, 2022
Two weeks ago, we wrote, “Last week [was] choppy for stocks. Crosscurrents about interest rate outlooks seem to be batting the market around.” The same basis