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June 2022
Sentiment Buoyed
The Weekly Update Week of June 27th, 2022 By Christopher T. Much, CFP®, AIF® Prospects of cooling inflation powered a rally in stock prices last week despite ...
Hiking
The Weekly Update Week of June 21st, 2022 By Christopher T. Much, CFP®, AIF® Stocks moved lower last week as recession fears deepened following a Fed hike ...
Sell-Off
The Weekly Update Week of June 13th, 2022 By Christopher T. Much, CFP®, AIF® A higher-than-expected inflation report triggered a sell-off on Friday, leaving stocks in the ...
Conflicted
The Weekly Update Week of June 6th, 2022 By Christopher T. Much, CFP®, AIF® In a holiday-shortened week of volatile trading, stocks surrendered some of the previous ...
May 2022
Broad Rally
The Weekly Update Week of May 31st, 2022 By Christopher T. Much, CFP®, AIF® Stocks posted solid gains for the week, buoyed by the release of Fed ...
Mixed Message
The Weekly Update Week of May 23rd, 2022 By Christopher T. Much, CFP®, AIF® Recession fears grew last week following weak earnings reports from major retailers, sending ...
Dipping
The Weekly Update Week of May 16th, 2022 By Christopher T. Much, CFP®, AIF® In a volatile trading week, stocks extended their losses as economic growth and ...
Price Swings
The Weekly Update Week of May 9th, 2022 By Christopher T. Much, CFP®, AIF® With the Fed in focus, the markets experienced wide price swings over the ...
Setting the Tone
The Weekly Update Week of May 2nd, 2022 By Christopher T. Much, CFP®, AIF® On Friday, a sharp sell-off sent major stock market indices into negative territory ...
April 2022
Overshadowed
The Weekly Update Week of April 25th, 2022 By Christopher T. Much, CFP®, AIF® Hawkish comments from Fed Chair Jerome Powell overshadowed many largely positive earnings results, ...
Earnings Season
The Weekly Update Week of April 18th, 2022 By Christopher T. Much, CFP®, AIF® Stocks posted losses in a holiday-shortened trading week as the first-quarter earnings season ...
Market Roiled
The Weekly Update Week April 11th, 2022 By Christopher T. Much, CFP®, AIF® Stock prices fell last week in response to the Fed’s plan to combat inflation, ...
Digesting
The Weekly Update Week of April 4th, 2022 By Christopher T. Much, CFP®, AIF® Stocks spent last week digesting the sharp gains of previous weeks as investors ...
March 2022
Resilience
The Weekly Update Week of March 28th, 2022 By Christopher T. Much, CFP®, AIF® With growing confidence in the economy’s resilience, stocks posted another week of solid ...
Push for Rate Hikes
The Weekly Update Week of March 21st, 2022 By Christopher T. Much, CFP®, AIF® With the Fed embarking on a new course of monetary tightening amid continued ...
Prices Rising
The Weekly Update Week of March 14th, 2022 By Christopher T. Much, CFP®, AIF® Intensifying hostilities in Ukraine continued to unsettle markets, as investors grappled with the ...
Continued Hostilities
The Weekly Update Week of March 7th, 2022 By Christopher T. Much, CFP®, AIF® War in Ukraine weighed on stocks as investors assessed the economic impact of ...
The Great Resignation
The Great Resignation The Great Resignation -- a popular phrase referring to the roughly 33 million Americans who have resigned since the spring of 2021 -- is far ...
February 2022
Emotional Rollercoaster
The Weekly Update Week of February 28th, 2022 By Christopher T. Much, CFP®, AIF® Investors rode a rollercoaster of emotions as rising hostilities at the Russian-Ukrainian border ...
Skittish
The Weekly Update Week of February 22nd, 2022 By Christopher T. Much, CFP®, AIF® Stocks closed lower for the week as escalating tensions on the Russian-Ukrainian border ...
Coming In Hot
The Weekly Update Week of February 14th, 2022 By Christopher T. Much, CFP®, AIF® A hot inflation print and the growing concern of a Russian invasion of ...
