by lindapowell | Mar 6, 2018 | Articles, Economic Updates
March 2018 THE MONTH IN BRIEF Investors certainly received a wake-up call in February. A correction hit Wall Street for the first time in nearly two years, and benchmarks overseas were also challenged. Two weeks later, though, the S&P 500 had gained back more than...
by lindapowell | Jan 9, 2018 | Articles, Economic Updates
January 2018 THE MONTH IN BRIEF Financially speaking, the last month of 2017 was also the year’s most newsworthy. Congress reformed federal tax law to a degree unseen since the 1980s, the Federal Reserve raised the benchmark interest rate, and bitcoin took its...
by lindapowell | Oct 13, 2017 | Articles, Economic Updates
October 2017 THE MONTH IN BRIEF In August, investors witnessed a terrible natural disaster and heard threats of war on America, and the S&P 500 still managed to gain 0.05%. September brought two terrible natural disasters and more threats of war on America, and...
by lindapowell | May 4, 2017 | Articles, Economic Updates
May 2017 THE MONTH IN BRIEF In April, investors kept one eye on impressive corporate earnings and another on geopolitical developments in Asia and Europe. Earnings ultimately drew the most attention – the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose more than 1% for the month,...
by lindapowell | Jun 13, 2016 | Articles, Kristin's Chronicles
And Why Aren’t They Driving a Ferrari? I’ll give you a multiple choice list of answers for this one Janet Yellen, the Fed Chief Someone in a back office on Wall Street All of us It doesn’t matter, the economy follows a random walk Trick question, there’s...
