Carson Wealth

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Core PCE, which excludes food and energy, has run at a 2.4% What’s more likely is the Fed will pursue a few “insurance” cuts, especially if weaker economic data raises the risk of a recession. The NASDAQ 100 Index includes publicly-traded companies from most sectors in the global economy, the major exception being financial services.

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Carson Wealth

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The Federal Reserve prefers to look at inflation stripped of food and energy, since these are volatile. Inflation Picture Improves Across Three Key Areas Prices for core goods, excluding food and energy , have fallen for five consecutive months and are down almost 1% over the last six months (annualized). Core inflation rose just 0.2%

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Carson Wealth

AUGUST 14, 2023

Disinflation is Happening, and There’s More to Come Inflation has been top of mind for investors over the past 18 months, both from an economic and monetary policy perspective. So, the latest release of the consumer price index (CPI), which tracks a basket of goods and services purchased by households, looms large every month.

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Carson Wealth

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In their updated “ Summary of Economic Projections ,” they revised their estimates of core inflation for 2023 down from 3.7% Markets were off to the races after the Fed released its statement and economic projections. has now raced ahead of other developed markets in economic growth since the pandemic.

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Carson Wealth

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Core CPI, excluding volatile food and energy components, rose 0.4%, above expectations for a 0.3% We’ve made a lot of progress, without a slowdown in economic growth or an increase in unemployment. Compliance Case # 02121983_022024_C The post Market Commentary: Late February Bumps are Normal appeared first on Carson Wealth.

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Carson Wealth

MAY 1, 2023

Equities closed out April in strong form amid better-than-expected earnings and resilient economic data. Don’t Be Fooled by Headline GDP The Bureau of Economic Analysis reported that the U.S. The good news is there is a measure of economic growth that excludes this volatility, which is shown in the last lines of the previous table.

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Carson Wealth

JULY 31, 2023

Economic growth accelerated over the past year, defying tight policy and expectations. Events have unfolded as expected, and if anything, the economic environment looks even better now. (We Core inflation, excluding food and energy, remains elevated, although it has seen a downshift recently. 5.50% range.

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Carson Wealth

MAY 8, 2023

The federal funds rate is now in the 5-5.25% range, which was the highest point it reached during the mid-2000s economic expansion. Even better news — income growth is running above inflation, which is up about 5% over the past year — and energy and food prices continue to fall. In summary, there’s no sign of a slowdown yet.

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Carson Wealth

MARCH 18, 2024

The good news is that the contribution from food prices (bright red bar) has also shrunk significantly. Really Good News: Food Price Inflation Is Easing Easing food price inflation was underreported amidst all the negative headlines about CPI data. First, easing food inflation is a big boost to household wallets.

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Carson Wealth

OCTOBER 30, 2023

While economic growth may have peaked in the third quarter, we expect the economy to remain supportive. Consumer services and government spending are likely to remain strong contributors to growth in the final quarter of the year. Keep in mind the trajectory of economic growth was not a given, considering the scale of the shocks.

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Carson Wealth

MAY 6, 2024

So, it is likely that markets will continue to focus on the economic resilience and business resourcefulness that have been clearly demonstrated. Core inflation, which strips out volatile food and energy components, has been going the wrong way. 3% since December.

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Carson Wealth

AUGUST 21, 2023

Resilient Economy May Be Accelerating Another month, another slew of economic data that not only shows the economy is resilient, but also that it may be accelerating. Retail sales and food services rose 0.7% Higher Interest Rates for Longer, Much Longer Equity markets have pulled back despite the run of strong economic data.

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Carson Wealth

JUNE 26, 2023

It doesn’t appear we are late in the economic cycle nor on the precipice of a recession (within the next 4-6 months). If anything, the current dynamics are akin to what is typically seen early in an economic expansion, which goes against forecasts that predict an imminent recession. But that’s easing now, and completions are rising.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 15, 2023

Let me say what your compliance wouldn’t allow you to say. SEIDES: Yeah, I wouldn’t measure it in terms of economic returns. Certainly in financial services, we recognize now that there are all these microaggressions that have been in place for decades. We were short subprime mortgages with John Paulson.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 25, 2023

Brian Hamburger has been one of the leading authorities in the world of registered investment advisories, broker-dealers, SEC regulatory compliance. You turned out to be the first dual economics financial management major at Quinnipiac. And I would constantly hear them frustrated by the compliance department.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

And so the idea is that, what I’ve heard is like, hey, we’re going into a recession or a weak economic period so therefore everybody’s going to go into work four and a half days a week because they want face time with their boss. And you definitely have some industries or some companies that want five days a week right now.

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