Trademark Financial Market Update – August 29, 2022 1) The big news today was always going to be the market reaction to Fed Chairman Powell’s Jackson Hole Speech. Powell wasn’t trying to move the stock market (even though he knew…
Trademark Financial Market Update – June 1, 2022 1) Overall: Last week was a great one for risk assets. Both stocks and bonds had been oversold from a technical perspective since perhaps the middle of March, but the previous rally…
Summary Sometimes a quarter passes and nothing much happens. Other times, so much happens in a quarter that it seems like a full year. The first quarter of 2022 falls into the latter category. Supply bottlenecks and then, of course,…
The stock market recovery that began on March 15th has stalled out as comments by Fed Governor Lael Brainard on Monday scared investors in terms of the amount of Quantitative Tightening that might occur later this year and into next…
Follow-ups and New Thoughts: My first investment thought today is that TIPs just became more interesting. TIPs started to fade as investors contemplated 5-7 rate hikes, because coupon bonds would then provide more inflation protection. If we assume that the…