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Weekly Market Recap – February 11, 2022
Weekly Market Recap – February 11, 2022 Tensions over Ukraine have continued to rise as Russia has increased its military presence in Belarus. A Canadian judge has ordered an end to the blockade at the...
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Weekly Market Recap – February 18, 2022
Weekly Market Recap – February 18, 2022 On Friday, President Biden said he is convinced Russian President Putin has decided to invade Ukraine and target the capital city of Kyiv. Stating that it could...
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Weekly Market Recap – February 25, 2022
Weekly Market Recap – February 25, 2022 In the first massive European military operation of its kind since WWII, Russia invaded Ukraine early on Thursday. The news of the invasion triggered panic in...
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Weekly Market Recap – March 4, 2022
Weekly Market Recap – March 4, 2022 The U.S. Department of Commerce reported that the trade deficit in January was -$107.6 billion (vs. -$100.5 billion in December), a record level for the second month...
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Weekly Market Recap – March 11, 2022
Weekly Market Recap – March 11, 2022 More than 300 international companies have ceased or scaled back operations in Russia in an effort to put pressure on President Putin by using sanctions and other...
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Weekly Market Recap – March 18, 2022
Weekly Market Recap – March 18, 2022 As the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine worsens, Russian airstrikes occurred within 11 miles of Poland’s border, where NATO forces are stationed on high alert. A 7.4...
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Weekly Market Recap – March 25, 2022
Weekly Market Recap – March 25, 2022 The Russian invasion of Ukraine has now become the largest European conflict in the last 75 years. On Wednesday, President Biden traveled to Brussels to attend the...
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Weekly Market Recap – April 1, 2022
Weekly Market Recap – April 1, 2022 Russia increased attacks in Ukraine, despite ongoing peace talks, as the war entered its sixth week. U.S. COVID-19 deaths are now fewer than 800 per day, the lowest...
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Weekly Market Recap – April 8, 2022
Weekly Market Recap – April 8, 2022 Western nations continued their efforts to exert economic pressure against Russia: the E.U. approved a ban on Russian coal, and the U.S. moved to prohibit Russia’s...
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Weekly Market Recap – April 14, 2022
Weekly Market Recap – April 14, 2022 Vladimir Putin called the peace talks a “dead end” as his military heightened its focus on Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region. Russia’s flagship cruiser, the Moskva,...
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Weekly Market Recap – April 22, 2022
Weekly Market Recap – April 22, 2022 Russia has proclaimed the fall of Mariupol; the Pentagon is sending Ukraine an additional $800 million in military aid for the second time in two weeks. As of...
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Weekly Market Recap – April 29, 2022
Weekly Market Recap – April 29, 2022 President Biden asked Congress to authorize $33 billion for weapons as well as economic and humanitarian aid for Ukraine. According to the U.N., more than 5.4...
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Weekly Market Recap – May 6, 2022
Weekly Market Recap – May 6, 2022 The Fed announced a 0.5% interest rate increase, the largest increase in the federal-funds benchmark since 2000, as the central bank continues efforts to combat...
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Weekly Market Recap – May 13, 2022
Weekly Market Recap – May 13, 2022 On Thursday, Finland pledged to join NATO, a move prompted by Russia’s February invasion of Ukraine. In a 368 to 57 vote, the House passed a bill to provide Ukraine...
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Weekly Market Recap – May 20, 2022
Weekly Market Recap – May 20, 2022 The U.S. is now seeing more than 100,000 COVID-19 cases per day for the first time in months; cases are up 52% and hospitalizations are up 31% in the past two weeks....
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Weekly Market Recap – May 27, 2022
Weekly Market Recap – May 27, 2022 Tuesday was the three-month mark since Russia invaded Ukraine. As the week came to a close, the White House reported that Russia is expected to default on its debt....
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Weekly Market Recap – June 3, 2022
Weekly Market Recap – June 3, 2022 An OPEC Plus announcement on Thursday that the organization will increase crude oil production delivered a surprise: the volume of the increase was more than analysts...
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Weekly Market Recap – June 10, 2022
Weekly Market Recap – June 10, 2022 In a move to mitigate soaring inflation, the European Central bank will raise interest rates in July. The quarter-percentage-point increase will be ECB’s first rate...
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Weekly Market Recap – June 17, 2022
Weekly Market Recap – June 17, 2022 Aiming to stem inflation, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates by three-quarters of a percentage point on Wednesday; 1994 was the last time the central bank...
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Weekly Market Recap – June 24, 2022
Weekly Market Recap – June 24, 2022 The Russian ruble, which had collapsed to 139-per-U.S.-dollar after Putin invaded Ukraine, was the strongest major currency during the week. On Tuesday, the ruble...
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