The Opening Bell

On March 27th, 2019 Steve Grzanich shares today’s potential market drivers: January Trade Balance leads off the day today (expected to be down) The Q4 Budget Deficit is released today (expected to be widening) The Mortgage Bankers Association shares weekly mortgage applications Lululemon Althetica reports earnings today

Many in the business world focus on the newest thing that would change the industry, but Ann-Marie Alcántara (Tech Reporter at AdWeek) is looking at the way the big legacy retailers are shifting their approach towards the digital times. Steve Grzanich dove into the reporting with Ann-Marie to learn that they aren’t just changing the way they bring customers in the door, but internally as well. Tim Roach (CEO of Lendr) then reminded small and mid-sized business that spring time […]

On March 26th, 2019 Steve Grzanich shares today’s potential market drivers: Housing Starts for February are out today along with the Case-Shiller Home Price Index for January The Richmond Fed Manufacturing Index will be released today Carnival, McCormick, KB Home, & Shoe Carnival all report earnings today

Advertisements and marketing campaigns for products usually mean that the cost of the product will increase. Kyle Nakatsuji (Co-founder and CEO of Clearcover, Inc.) is deciding against that and explained to Steve Grzanich how the whole idea of their car insurance company is to keep operating costs slim so customers can save money compared to other large industry players. Pamela Althoff (Executive Director of Medical Cannabis Alliance of Illinois) then shared the latest details from a report on the readiness […]

Many states have taken the slow and steady approach to the legalization of medical and recreation marijuana, but Illinois is doing it homework by sharing the results of a new study detailing the Illinois market demand so if there isn’t over demand or under demand. Steve Grzanich checked in with Pamela Althoff (Executive Director of Medical Cannabis Alliance of Illinois) to sort through what it would mean if legalization happened right now, and what we can continue to do to […]

On March 25th, 2019 Steve Grzanich shares today’s potential market drivers: January Housing Starts are expected to beat expectations in the Case-Shiller Home Price Index out tomorrow March consumer confidence is out tomorrow as well 4th Quarter GDP is released on Thursday

On March 22nd, 2019 Steve Grzanich shares today’s potential market drivers: Existing Home Sales for February and January Wholesale Inventories are both out today Tiffany and Co. and Destination XL Group report earnings today

Brexit is only a couple weeks away, but are they (and the rest of the world) ready for it? Ready or not, Don Lloyd (SVP and Manager of Capital Markets -Foreign Exchange, Rate Swaps, and Commodity Derivatives at Associated Bank) and Steve Grzanich Brexit preparations that have been two years in the making on this weeks Associated Bank Thought Leader conversation and wondered what will happen on March 29th. (At 14:06) Michael Papka (Deputy Associate Laboratory Director of Computer, Environment, […]

The Brexit negotiations are finally close to wrapping up as they approach their initial deadline for a plan. Steve Grzanich sat down with this week’s Associated Bank Thought Leader to figure out if it will be a “hard brexit”, a “soft brexit”, if the deadline will be changed, etc. Don Lloyd (SVP and Manager of Capital Markets -Foreign Exchange, Rate Swaps, and Commodity Derivatives at Associated Bank) also touched on the perspective we all have on debt these days, and […]

On March 21st, 2019 Steve Grzanich shares today’s potential market drivers: Weekly Jobless Numbers are out today (expecting an increase from last week) The Philadelphia Federal Reserve shares their Business Outlook Survey The EIA Natural Gas Report is out today Darden Restaurants, Tencent, and LEVI Strauss is expected to IPO today as well