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This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Friday, October 1, 2021 Brace yourselves: Winter is coming With all that’s been going on in the market lately, it’s easy to forget there’s a debilitating virus still encircling the world — and it still poses serious risks. The biggest economic takeaway from the current COVID-19 landscape is that it’s playing a very acute role in the… Source link

This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Thursday, September 30, 2021 Once again, Wall Street is worried about slowing growth and relentless inflation. In the wake of this week’s run up in oil, which coincided with energy crunches in China and the U.K., a certain word associated with slowing growth and higher inflation — popularized during a particularly rough stretch nearly 50 years… Source link

This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Tuesday, September 28, 2021 High demand + bottlenecked supply + spiking prices = no relief  The economy is still growing — albeit a touch more slowly. And while sentiment indicators suggest otherwise, the consumer still appears more than willing to spend in the face of rising inflation and raging COVID-19 infections. According to Kenneth Leon,… Source link

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This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Monday, September 27, 2021 All bad news is priced into the stock market, until it isn’t.  I lost count long ago the number of financial services pros that no matter what risks were barreling straight down on investors would tell me it was already priced into the valuations of public companies.  Back in late 2007 when two Bear Stearns (ticker… Source link

This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Thursday, September 23, 2021 The famed ‘Fed put’ is alive and well. The Federal Reserve isn’t entirely asleep at the switch on soaring prices, and doesn’t appear to be committing a policy error — at least not yet. Those were the main takeaways from Wall Street’s reaction to the Fed’s policy decision, which sent a market addled by… Source link

This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Wednesday, September 22, 2021 Debt, debt everywhere — and not a drop of it paid for Have you heard? The United States is on the path to a showdown over the debt ceiling — again. As the spectacle of heavily-indebted Chinese real estate giant Evergrande held investors in its sway for a second day, another drama slowly played itself out on the… Source link

This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Tuesday, September 21, 2021 Two words that hint of volatility, connected by a third An ugly start to September, and the even uglier start to this week’s trading session, can be defined using two alliterative words that often unsettle investors. Correction and contagion. The first word relates to stocks that, as bulls are wont to remind us, usually… Source link

This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Monday, September 20, 2021 But there are green pastures Against a noisy backdrop of mounting corporate earnings warnings and a steady drumbeat of market correction calls by Wall Street pros, I have been on a covert mission to find a few good things for investors to chew on midway through a volatile September.  I inhaled a whiff of hopium on the… Source link

This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Friday, September 17, 2021 The American consumer is saving the world, again For weeks, markets have been unsettled by relentless jitters about COVID-19 — and more recently, widening concerns about how a possible slowdown in China may drag on global growth. However, U.S. consumers are riding to the rescue — yet again — by spending with… Source link