Market Commentary | April 11, 2022
Market Commentary | April 11, 2022 Interest Rates on the Ascent This past week’s release of the minutes from the Fed’s March 15-16 meeting confirmed that inflation is no longer perceived as transitory and efforts to bring inflation down quickly have moved to front and...Market Commentary | March 11, 2022
Market Commentary | March 11, 2022 United States Inflation Rate Bureau of Labor Statistics data released this morning showed that the annual inflation rate in the US accelerated to 7.9%, the highest rate in more than 40 years. This follows Federal Reserve Chairman...Market Commentary | January 18, 2022
Market Commentary | January 18, 2022 Inflation is here. Rate hikes are coming. Markets are anxious. On 1/12/2022 the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in December the Consumer Price Index rose 7.0% Y-O-Y. This follows a November report of +6.8%. On 1/13 the...Market Commentary | December 15, 2021
Investor fears and anticipations were confirmed when the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the November 2021 Consumer Price Index rose 6.8% from the prior year period, the largest 12-month increase since June 1982. Ex food and energy, all prices were up 4.9%.