Insights & Understanding

The new year and decade started off where the last one finished as major stock market indexes opened the year by reaching new highs. The good spirits, supported by...

Stock markets continued to march steadily higher last week. News was relatively light, but momentum and reduced uncertainty helped push the markets toward...

Stock markets rallied sharply last week as uncertainty continued to fade. U.S. trade negotiators were able to secure approval of the USMCA (United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement)...

Three key policy issues achieved greater clarity last week. The United States and China reached a “phase one” trade deal. The United States will reduce some existing tariffs...

A powerful jobs report in the United States produced continued evidence the U.S. economy is performing well and the risk of recession is lower. As discussed in...

Trade negotiators remained primarily responsible for the market yo-yoing up and down in a tight range. Last week, the United States and China both shared positive...

Happy Thanksgiving! After a few weeks where growing hopes of a U.S.-China trade deal propelled markets higher, the opposite occurred last week. Trade negotiations...

The S&P 500 continued to edge higher and closed Friday at another all-time high. News that the U.S.-China trade negotiations continued to progress kept markets moving...

The Markets Last week was quieter following the multiple major data releases and the Fed meeting the previous week. England and Australia left interest rates unchanged. The …

In 1986, Fortune magazine asked Warren Buffett his thoughts on inheritance. He responded children should receive, “…enough money so that they would feel they could do anything, …