Weekly Market Update

Market Action Despite continuing concerns about the vibrancy of the retail sector stocks posted a strong week, led by the Consumer Discretionary sector. Emerging markets are posed to record their first acceleration in growth in 2016 since 2010 according to a new...

Weekly Market Update

Market Action Stocks delivered one of their worst weeks since August, when China’s devaluation and macro concerns sparked volatility. Every sector, save for Utilities, saw a sharp downturn as poor retail sales and earning reports combined with increased tightening...

Weekly Market Update

Market Action Stocks ended October posting some of their best monthly gains in years. 76% of reporting firms have surpassed their earnings expectations thus far in Q3 although sales figures continue to be held back by the strong dollar. It seems companies are on their...

Weekly Market Update

Market Action Stocks in the U.S. posted another week of gains and have largely recovered from their period of volatility in August. With the Fed Funds Futures and Bond Markets pricing zero rates into 2016 stocks may have more room to run this year. While markets in...

Weekly Market Update

Market Action Despite more data that questioned the health of the current macroeconomic environment asset markets had one of their best weeks in months. Energy and Materials, the two weakest sectors so far in 2015, led the rally with each rising over 7%. The first...

Weekly Market Update

Market Action An upward revision to Q2 GDP growth from 3.7% to 3.9% couldn’t lift markets this past week. The downfall this week hit the Nasdaq especially hard as concerns over drug prices and potential political action impacted the Biotech industry specifically and...