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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 ...
Focus Turning
The Weekly Update Week of February 7th, 2022 By Christopher T. Much, CFP®, AIF® Stocks managed to gain ground last week as investors turned their focus to ...
January 2022
The Fed Prepares
The Weekly Update Week of January 31st, 2022 By Christopher T. Much, CFP®, AIF® An exceptionally volatile week, marked by wide intraday price swings, whipsawed investors with ...
Continued Turbulence
The Weekly Update Week of January 24th, 2022 By Christopher T. Much, CFP®, AIF® Stocks extended their January retreat as worries over inflation and rising bond yields ...
Grappling
The Weekly Update Week of January 18th, 2022 By Christopher T. Much, CFP®, AIF® Deteriorating investor enthusiasm for high-valuation growth companies and a mixed start to the ...
The Fed Gets Hawkish
The Weekly Update Week of January 10th, 2022 By Christopher T. Much, CFP®, AIF® A jump in yields sparked by a more aggressive sounding Federal Reserve sent ...
Holiday Highs
The Weekly Update Week of January 3rd, 2021 By Christopher T. Much, CFP®, AIF® Stocks closed out the year on a mostly positive note, adding to the ...
December 2021
Tightening
The Weekly Update Week of December 20th, 2021 By Christopher T. Much, CFP®, AIF® Stock prices retreated last week as global central banks joined the Federal Reserve ...
Lion or Lamb?
The Weekly Update Week of December 13th, 2021 By Christopher T. Much, CFP®, AIF® A more benign reassessment of the possible economic risk posed by Omicron sent ...
Mixed Data
The Weekly Update Week of December 6th, 2021 By Christopher T. Much, CFP®, AIF® Stocks took investors on a wild ride last week as the Omicron variant ...