The Opening Bell

On July 12th, 2019 Steve Grzanich shares the day’s potential market drivers: June Producer Price Index is out today (expecting a slight increase over last month) Wall Street looks to continue it’s rallies after reaching all time highs yesterday

Madhu Unnikrishnan (Editor at Skift’s Airline Daily) likes to look at the big picture when it comes to the airline industry, but also has the pulse of each airline. Steve Grzanich checked in with Madhu to discuss the stellar earnings from Delta Airlines along with the news coming out of France detailing that consumers might have to start paying a “carbon tax” because of airline emissions impacting climate change.  

For the last few weeks, Don Lloyd (SVP of Capital Markets – Foreign Exchange and Derivatives at Associated Bank) has been one of the busier people in the banking industry as he followed the non-stop global news that is influencing the international finance world. Steve Grzanich and the Associated Bank Thought Leader discussed a number of stories including the Federal Reserve’s concerns with the economy, the protests happening in Hong Kong, and the severe concerns surround Italy’s debt situation.  

The global markets have had no time to rest recently and neither has Don Lloyd (SVP of Capital Markets – Foreign Exchange and Derivatives at Associated Bank). Steve Grzanich checked in with the Associated Bank Thought Leader to recap the biggest market movers including the news coming out of the Federal Reserve, the influence of Hong Kong’s protests, and Italy’s major debt problem (which is what Don is most concerned about). (At 19:35) Mark Hamrick (Sr. Economic Analyst at Bankrate.com) […]

On July 11th, 2019 Steve Grzanich shares the day’s potential market drivers: Data on June inflation numbers are out by mid-morning today Weekly claims for first time unemployment benefits will be released later Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell continues his testimony on Capitol Hill Delta reports earnings by the end of the day today

In the last decade there was a trend that popular problems were solved by creating an app. It’s a simple, easy and quick perceived solution, but Howard Tullman (Executive Director of The Kaplan Institute at the Illinois Institute of Technology) discussed with Steve Grzanich the idea from his latest Inc.com article encouraging people to embrace complex problems. Howard told Steve that entrepreneurs and politicians alike will find better solutions to problems if they take the extra time and think differently. […]

On July 10th, 2019 Steve Grzanich shares the day’s potential market drivers: The Federal Reserve shares their meeting minutes this afternoon Wholesale Inventories for May are released (experts forecasting a slight increase from the month before) Bed, Bath, and Beyond report earnings today

For many, cancer is one of the worst diagnoses to receive, but not only does it take a toll on patients physically/emotionally, the financial cost is enormous. Steve Grzanich recapped a recent American Cancer Society study with Andrew Keshner (Reporter at MarketWatch) as his reporting showed the disease is costing Americans nearly $100 billion dollars. Stephanie Yang (Energy Reporter at The Wall Street Journal) then shared the analysis of the natural gas market here in the U.S. and why these […]

Natural gas has long been a resource to help transition areas towards renewable energies, but it has it’s fair share of criticism including the glut of supply in the U.S. at the moment. Steve Grzanich dove into the industry with Stephanie Yang (Energy Reporter at The Wall Street Journal) to explain how we got to this point in our supply levels and why this isn’t translating to lower prices for consumers.  

On July 9th, 2019 Steve Grzanich shares the day’s potential market drivers: The Small Business Optimism Index for June is out today Details on the JOLTS are out today Levi Strauss, PepsiCo, and WD-40 all report earnings