Recent Posts
- September 11, 2026 Market Recap & Outlook: Hot Core Inflation Puts the Hike at 90%. And the Houthis Seize the Red Sea’s Gate.
- September 4, 2026 Market Recap & Outlook: Jobs Roar Back, Broadcom Delivers an Encore. And Iran Fires on a Carrier.
- The Biggest Financial Decisions You’ll Make Before Retirement
- Is Illinois a Good Place to Retire? Financial Considerations Before You Decide
- August 28, 2026 Market Recap & Outlook: Nvidia Delivers, Warsh Warns. Then the Gulf Reignites.
Recent Comments
No comments to show.
Category Archives: Economy
June 12, 2026 Market Recap & Outlook: A Broad Rebound, a Record IPO, and a Sunday Peace Deal
Markets recovered from the prior week’s losses as small caps and value led a broad advance, SpaceX completed the largest IPO in history, and inflation hit a three-year high. Then, on Sunday, June 14, the headline investors had awaited for…
June 5, 2026 Market Recap & Outlook: Nine Weeks Ends. A Guidance Gap and a Jobs Surprise Reset Markets.
The S&P 500’s longest winning streak since 2023 ended as two catalysts converged on Friday: Broadcom’s AI chip guidance fell short of elevated expectations, dragging the semiconductor complex lower, and the May jobs report nearly doubled the consensus forecast, eliminating…
May 29, 2026 Market Recap & Outlook: Nine Straight, as AI Earnings and Iran Diplomacy Lift All Markets
In a compressed four-day trading week following the Memorial Day holiday, U.S. equity markets charged to fresh all-time highs across all three major indices, with the S&P 500 posting its ninth consecutive weekly gain, the longest winning streak since 2023….
May 22, 2026 Market Recap & Outlook: Eight Straight Weeks of Gains, as Markets Climb Every Wall of Worry
The U.S. equity market posted its eighth consecutive weekly gain on Friday, May 22, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average closing at a new all-time record, as a convergence of extraordinary AI earnings, late-week oil price declines on Iran peace…
May 15, 2026 Market Recap & Outlook: Bond Markets Revolt, as Inflation Refuses to Yield
A week that began with the confirmation of a new Federal Reserve chairman ended with a global bond rout that is rewriting assumptions about where interest rates are headed. The April consumer price index, released Tuesday, showed inflation running at…
May 8, 2026 Market Recap & Outlook: Markets Rally on Diplomacy Hopes, Iran Talks Collapse Over the Weekend
Equity markets staged a broad rally this week, with the S&P 500 gaining 2.4% as diplomatic optimism around a potential Strait of Hormuz resolution briefly pulled oil prices sharply lower and lifted risk appetite across global markets. The 10-year Treasury…
May 1, 2026 Market Recap & Outlook: Big Tech Delivers, Energy Pressures Mount
An extraordinary week for corporate earnings, headlined by blockbuster results from Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Apple, propelled the S&P 500 to a 0.9% weekly gain, lifting the index’s year-to-date return to 6.0%. The Federal Reserve held interest rates unchanged…
April 24, 2026 Market Recap & Outlook: Resilience at Home, Uncertainty Abroad
U.S. equity markets closed the week on a constructive note as a solid first-quarter earnings season provided a counterweight to escalating tensions in the Strait of Hormuz and lingering trade-policy uncertainty. The S&P 500 gained 0.6% for the week, extending…
April 17, 2026 Market Recap & Outlook: Markets, Macro & Geopolitics
Friday’s announcement that Iran had reopened the Strait of Hormuz delivered one of the most dramatic single-day moves in recent memory. The S&P 500 surged to a new all-time high of 7,126, oil plunged, and virtually every asset class participated…
April 10, 2026 Market Recap & Outlook: Your Weekly Market Compass
Markets delivered a dramatic and volatile week, with Thursday’s sharp rally standing as one of the most significant single-day moves of 2026, driven by a partial de-escalation in the Iran conflict and a temporary ceasefire agreement that briefly reopened commercial…