Insights

What do TINA and TIAA mean? Interest rates are top of mind for most investors.

Technology drives stocks near all-time highs, improving inflation, and a Fed hike coming soon.

As we looked back over the investment news highlights of the second quarter, investors were mostly focused on the Fed, but stock investors also enjoyed exiting the bear market of 2022.

A new bull market is upon us.

Will this year's gains be derailed by the debt ceiling or the Fed?

Will the next Fed hike be the last?

Low expectations into earnings season and falling yields in January helped boost stock market returns. In February, attention turned to higher yields and further Fed hikes, but in March all eyes shifted to banks. Concerns in this area led to eased expectations for Fed hikes. While the bear market in the S&P 500 has not ended yet (using closing prices), through it all, the S&P 500 finished the quarter less than 2% from the highest level seen in the past 6 months.

What do FDIC and SIPC cover? Banks are in the news.

Regional bank stocks continued to sell off today on concerns of weakness because of the banks that recently failed, Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank.

Stocks rally despite more Fed hikes on deck, new video, buyback Q&A.