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The Inflation Plot Twist: Markets Rethink Rates as Price Pressures Return
This week’s discussion examines hotter-than-expected inflation readings and their implications for Federal Reserve policy, global interest rates, and investor position...
Taking Care of Business: Strong Jobs, Cautious Markets, and Municipal Bond Opportunities
This week’s discussion examines a stronger-than-expected August employment report and its implications for the Federal Reserve’s September decision. The conversation a...
What Jackson Hole and NVIDIA Earnings Mean for Investors
Kevin Warsh’s first Jackson Hole speech as Fed chair emphasized policy flexibility, a firm 2% inflation target and less reliance on forward guidance. The panel examine...
New Highs, Softer Inflation, and a Fed on Hold
Markets moved higher this week as inflation data came in largely in line with expectations and concerns about additional Federal Reserve tightening eased. The panel di...
Slip Slidin’ Away: Jobs Growth Slips into Negative Territory
This week’s discussion focused on a mixed set of labor market signals, highlighted by an unexpected decline in July nonfarm payrolls and a lower unemployment rate. The...
Sounds of Silence: What the Fed Isn’t Saying Matters Most
This week’s discussion focuses on the Federal Reserve’s latest meeting, persistent inflation pressures, and what a more data dependent policy approach could mean for i...
Oil, Inflation, and the Fed’s Next Move
This week’s discussion focused on the resurgence of inflation concerns as escalating tensions involving Iran and disruptions to global energy flows pushed oil prices t...
Crazy Train: The Economy Keeps Rolling Down the Tracks
This week’s discussion focused on encouraging inflation data, steady consumer spending, and the market implications of continued AI-driven investment. The team reviewe...
Fed Focus Shifts as Inflation Stays Sticky
This week’s discussion focused on a labor market that is cooling but still stable, renewed geopolitical risk tied to oil prices, and a Federal Reserve that appears mor...
Fed Reset, Inflation Pressures and a Broader Market Story
Markets recalibrate as the Federal Reserve signals a more hawkish stance under new leadership, shifting expectations away from rate cuts and toward potential tightenin...
A New Fed Era Begins as Inflation Lingers and Markets Broaden
Markets ended the week balancing persistent inflation data, evolving Fed expectations, and shifting equity leadership. CPI and PPI both surprised to the upside, reinfo...
Cracks in the AI Trade, a Strong Jobs Print, and the Summer Fed Watch
This week’s conversation points to an economy that is still expanding, but with a market narrative that may be shifting. Manufacturing and services remained in expansi...
The Rally Rolls On as Risks Start to Build
Markets are navigating a complex mix of persistent inflation, steady growth, and evolving Fed leadership. Recent data shows elevated PCE inflation alongside a modest G...
Fed Chair Transition, Sticky Inflation, and Why Diversification Still Matters
This week’s discussion reviews how hotter inflation readings pushed yields higher and challenged the market’s near-term policy assumptions. The group outlines what th...
Investing Through Divergence in Rates, Earnings, and Global Risks
This week’s discussion focuses on a market that continues to advance despite crosscurrents in geopolitics, inflation, and monetary policy. The team reviews steady gain...
This Week’s Trifecta: A Split Fed, Powell’s Swan Song and AI-Driven Earnings
This week’s discussion centers on a Federal Reserve on pause but increasingly divided, as inflation data and geopolitical risks complicate the policy path. The team re...
Signals in Motion: What the Data, the Fed, and AI Are Telling Us Now
Speakers: Brian Pietrangelo, Managing Director of Investment Strategy George Mateyo, Chief Investment Officer Stephen Hoedt, Head of Equities Rajeev Sharma, Head of Fi...
Markets Look Past Iran Headlines as Oil Risks Evolve
This week’s conversation focuses on how investors are weighing geopolitics against a market that’s showing signs of repair. The episode walks through key economic upda...
Playing Through the Rough: PCE, CPI, and a Hawkish Fed Backdrop
This week’s discussion focuses on how geopolitical risk and shifting rate expectations are driving markets more than fundamentals. Attention stays on developments in I...
Markets in the Fog: War Risk, Earnings Reality, and Higher Rates
This week’s discussion centers on how geopolitical risk, shifting rate expectations, and resilient earnings are reshaping the investment landscape. With economic data ...