Virus Fears

Stocks ended the week lower as fears of the new corona virus spreading offset good earnings and economic data.  China has restricted travel for portions of the country during this lunar new year celebration.  However, infected individuals have presented outside of Wuhan and in other countries with the U.S. now having five confirmed cases.  While […]

Wage Growth Conundrum

Stocks recovered as tensions subsided between the U.S. and Iran.  The spike in gold and oil prices also reversed. The U.S. continues to create a good number of jobs each month with the decade of the 2010s beating all other decades going back to the 1940s.  This follows a negative decade of the 2000s.  Despite […]

2020 Outlook

President Trump announced that he will sign the phase 1 trade deal with China on January 15th and will travel to China at a later date to negotiate a broader trade deal.  China also reduced bank reserve requirements to add about $115BN to the financial system and therefore boosting the economy. Middle East tensions escalated […]