Iris Choi

1/ Market Musings! It’s now been more than a year since the Federal Reserve began increasing interest rates aggressively in an attempt to tame inflation, a move which many (myself included!) expected to tip the US economy into a recession.

1/ Market Musings! Stocks finished down for the day last Friday but up for the week after Congressional negotiations on the debt ceiling came to a pause, with participants citing the lack of progress having been made.

1/ Market Musings with a Big Tech earnings wrap up from last week. TL;DR: the large tech influencers met or exceeded muted Wall St. expectations but growth in their cloud businesses is slowing.

1/ Market Musings! All 3 major indexes dipped lower last week. Quarterly results from financial institutions indicated a general stabilization in the financial sector but also a tougher outlook for maintaining deposits.

1/ Market Musings! 4 big banks announced earnings last Friday with stronger than expected results. But executives tempered the solid performance with warnings of challenges on the horizon.