Market Perspective

Despite overwhelming expectations of doom and gloom at the beginning of 2023, the equity market had an excellent first half of the year (and continued ...

Uncertainty persists around the path of the U.S. economy despite the expected summer lull. With the Federal Reserve (the Fed) pausing rate hikes at their ...

There has been much handwringing about the U.S. Federal Reserve’s (the Fed) persistent efforts to tame inflation and tighten monetary policy by increasing interest rates. ...

Apart from the spike associated with the Silicon Valley Bank led banking crisis in March 2023, volatility, as measured by the Cboe® Volatility Index (the ...

Investors are facing many challenges and a new investment landscape. Equity valuations are lower, but not cheap, and volatility levels have shifted higher. On the ...

A combination of higher interest rates and signs of slowing growth are putting pressure on valuations. Even with February’s market pullback, the price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio ...

As traders and professional prognosticators hang on every word from Federal Reserve officials, anticipate each data release with tense fingers hovering over keyboards and debate ...

The Federal Reserve’s (the Fed) monetary policy transition from accommodative to tightening was sudden – asset purchases to support the economy ended in March 2022, ...

If the story of 2022 stock and bond market returns was written as a whodunit, the crack detective protagonist would have a primary suspect list ...

Trading volume in S&P 500® Index option contracts set a record in October 2022. As Figure 1 shows, trading volume in options on the bellwether ...