Where does the stock market go from here?

A round of late afternoon buying boosted the DJIA to another record high on Friday as rising optimism around the global economic reopening continued to encourage the rotation into cyclical stocks. But surging bond yields rekindled valuation fears in the big tech...

Looking at Post Inflation Trade

The major averages finished the week with sharp losses, despite a Friday rebound. Bond buying pushed the 10-year Treasury yield back down to as low as 1.39% after surging above 1.6% at one point. But, stocks and commodities still ended broadly lower. Meanwhile, U.S....

Dealing with higher inflation

Stocks closed out Friday’s session mixed at the end of a choppy week. The S&P 500 logged its first weekly loss in three weeks. The Nasdaq outperformed against the other two major indexes as the rotation into cyclical stocks and away from some high-growth...

Deficit Dynamics: Free Lunch Forever?

In the past four years, U.S. government debt has increased by $7 trillion to $21.6 trillion. President Joe Biden has committed to a spending program that could add $1.9 trillion more in the year ahead. At 100.1% of gross domestic product, the debt already exceeds the...

Stock Market outlook for 2021

It is a tradition around this time of year to make predictions about what stock market holds for investors in the following 12 months. These predictions garner a lot of attention and many investors take the top stock picks by the pundits seriously, and when markets...