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Weekly Investment Update August 29, 2022
August 29, 2022 •OneAscent
Key Events: Fed Governor Powell reaffirms the commitment to fighting inflation
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August 10, 2022 •OneAscent
Markets marched expeditiously higher in July as investor optimism increased on signs that inflation may be softening. The S&P 500 index (large-cap US...
Read MoreWeekly Investment Update July 25, 2022
July 25, 2022 •OneAscent
Stock markets bounced back last week, posting the first positive weekly return in a month. Despite dropping on Friday (led lower by social media...
Read MoreWeekly Investment Update July 18, 2022
July 18, 2022 •OneAscent
In another busy week for markets, risk assets in general retreated over the past five days. Inflation was the biggest headline, as the most recent...
Read MoreMonthly Investment Update: July 2022
July 13, 2022 •OneAscent
US stocks, as measured by the S&P 500 index, reached an all-time high in late December of 2021. From there, a confluence of risks and realities has...
Read MoreWeekly Investment Update June 27, 2022
June 27, 2022 •OneAscent
Risk assets bounced back through the holiday-shortened week last week. Buoyed by comments from St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank President Bullard...
Read MoreWeekly Investment Update June 20, 2022
June 20, 2022 •OneAscent
After a tumultuous beginning of June for markets, investors hoping that a Federal Reserve (Fed) meeting and rate hike would calm markets were sorely...
Read MoreWeekly Investment Update June 13, 2022
June 13, 2022 •OneAscent
The latest year-over-year Consumer Price Index (CPI) figures, a commonly used approximation of inflation, were released on Friday and the numbers...
Read MoreMonthly Investment Update: June 2022
June 10, 2022 •OneAscent
For markets, economies, and geopolitics, 2022 has felt like all bad news. At its worst point in mid-May, the S&P 500 index (large US companies) had...
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