inflation
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Election years are notoriously turbulent, not only in the political arena but also across financial landscapes. The potential for a shift in leadership brings an air of uncertainty that permeates the economy, affecting everything from…
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By Aoifinn Devitt, CFP® – Chief Investment Officer As the holidays approach, there is a miracle in the air. But not the usual festive kind. Consumers were already starting to expect lower inflation – and Tuesday’s CPI…
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By Aoifinn Devitt, CFP® – Chief Investment Officer October turned out to be a little spooky after all. The month launched somewhat unsteadily, reeling from a “September effect” which did exactly what it said on the tin…
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By Aoifinn Devitt, CFP® – Chief Investment Officer The quarter started with a bang but ended with a whimper, as a surging stock market in July was cut short by a more subdued month of August and…
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Tim Side, CFA® – Investment Strategist Rick Bettger – Investment Research Analyst Click here to download the PDF Monthly Observations September Lives Up to Long-Term Reputation September has the reputation as the worst performing month of…
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By Aoifinn Devitt, CFP® – Chief Investment Officer The end of Q3 is upon us and September has proven to be a month of transition. We have transitioned into a little more edginess in markets, as inflation…
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By Aoifinn Devitt, CFP® – Chief Investment Officer Just as the weather started to cool down, inflation has been picking up. The latest inflation figures released this week showed a small uptick in month-on-month inflation, largely attributable…
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By Aoifinn Devitt, CFP® – Chief Investment Officer Summer’s lease hath all too short a date. Sonnet 18, William Shakespeare As we near the end of official summer, the economy continues to hum along like a lazy…
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By Aoifinn Devitt, CFP® – Chief Investment Officer It must be mid-August because the Halloween candy and costumes have hit the store aisles. Like corporations and their earnings stores have become adept at telegraphing activity like holidays…
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By Aoifinn Devitt, CFP® – Chief Investment Officer It was a blockbuster cinema weekend as “Barbenheimer” swept box offices, leading to the fourth biggest box office weekend in US history. However, as for much of the past…
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By Aoifinn Devitt, CFP® – Chief Investment Officer Download the PDF If the first quarter of the year was a somewhat wild one in terms of market volatility and sentiment swings, the second one ended with an…
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By Aoifinn Devitt, CFP® – Chief Investment Officer As the July 4 holiday nears, there are fireworks by night and smoke by day, at least in our neighborhood in the Midwest. The grayish haze triggers a search…
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Aoifinn Devitt – Chief Investment Officer Just when it seemed like inflation was firmly receding based on last week’s PCE price index data, oil looked poised to deliver a supply side shock – at least…
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Aoifinn Devitt – Chief Investment Officer The 25 bps rate hike delivered yesterday by Fed Chairman Powell gave us some insight into the no-mans land that lies between a rock and a hard place. This was…
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Aoifinn Devitt – Chief Investment Officer Markets meandered somewhat aimlessly over the past week with the now familiar mix of resilient “hard” economic data and waning consumer sentiment. And it is clear that Chairman Powell is…
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Chris Kamykowski, CFA®, CFP® – Head of Investment Strategy & Research Markets are flummoxed with changing expectations for how long the Fed will raise rates and for how long they hold at the eventual terminal…
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Chris Kamykowski, CFA®, CFP® – Head of Investment Strategy & Research Markets are flummoxed with changing expectations for how long the Fed will raise rates and for how long they hold at the eventual terminal…
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Aoifinn Devitt – Chief Investment Officer It was a bruising week last week as the S&P recorded its third negative week in a row and its largest weekly decline in over 10 weeks. The tripwire in…
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Aoifinn Devitt – Chief Investment Officer The US CPI data for January was not exactly a sweet-smelling Valentine’s Day bouquet. Although it showed a seventh consecutive month of lower inflation than the previous month, it still…
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Aoifinn Devitt – Chief Investment Officer As we move to February and the Super Bowl beckons this weekend, a groundswell of positive economic indicators – so called hard data, is starting to edge out the soft…
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Aoifinn Devitt – Chief Investment Officer Typically, real estate is considered an inflation resilient component of a portfolio, but how resilient has real estate been this year? Chief Investment Officer Aoifinn Devitt looks at how the…
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Aoifinn Devitt – Chief Investment Officer Markets have digested a volley of information in the past week. This ranged from a surprising – and still not fully resolved – Mid-term Election result, to better-than-expected inflation data,…
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James Chalmers – Senior Advisor Some people are planners; others are procrastinators. Some are one-thing-at-a-timers, and some are a combination, depending on the topic. Retirement, though, is an area for which planning is not just…
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Aoifinn Devitt – Chief Investment Officer As we write today, more earnings numbers are rolling in and, as so often this year, the word on the street from “Main Street” is somewhat incoherent. While some consumer…