Resources
In an effort to fulfill our mission of educating all on the benefits of a healthy financial lifestyle, we offer our insights and resources. Our ‘Vestbridge Weekly Update’ is published weekly and provides critical insight into current events.
As a trusted voice in the industry, we also offer some of our published Guides free to the public, and we offer other materials also listed below.
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What’s Up In The Market
Global Equities:
Stocks continued to advance during weekly trading in anticipation of continued progress in inflation and expectations of further easing from the Fed for the remainder of the year.
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Market Volatility Update
The recent selloff in global markets has triggered some concerning headlines, being the biggest drop in Japanese stocks since 1987 and the highest reading of the VIX index (a measure of volatility and fear) since the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Corporate Earnings Continue to Impress
When the Federal Reserve paused on rate hikes roughly a year ago, the consensus view of the market, economists, and even Fed officials was that rate cuts would occur sometime in the second quarter of 2024.
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2024 Mid-Year Update
When we penned our Annual Outlook, we noted that markets were beginning to return to a semblance of “normalcy” as the effects of pandemic-era rate cuts and subsequent hikes from the Federal Reserve (the “Fed”) were poised to unwind.
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Extreme Divergences
US stocks are on a remarkable run, with both the Nasdaq Composite and S&P 500 trading at all-time highs and the Dow Jones Industrial Average just below the record 40,000 level attained in mid-May 2024.
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ECB Cuts Interest Rates
On June 6th, the European Central Bank (ECB) cut its key interest rate from 4% to 3.75%.
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Connecting the Dots
Various members of the Federal Reserve have been out in force on the speaking circuit, offering their updated assessments of inflation and the economy.
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Positive Market Breadth is a Bullish Setup
It’s no secret that the US stock market has become increasingly concentrated in recent years, with the largest, most dominant technology companies representing a disproportionate amount of the S&P 500 Index’s market capitalization.
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Election Uncertainty Around the Corner
As investors, we must often remind ourselves that markets are forward-looking in nature, and that the current, known events have less influence on market returns than one would think.
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Rate Cuts in Doubt, but Does It Matter?
Back in the fall of 2023, the Fed signaled that rate hikes were finished, prompting a significant stock market rally that has been largely uninterrupted.
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Collateral Damage From Fed Policy (3) – Money Market Funds, A ‘Powder Keg’?
By Dr. George Calhoun – Vestbridge Advisors, Inc. Advisory Board Member
Executive Director of the Hanlon Financial Systems Center
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