The Weekly Insight

The holidays are over. The end of the year wrap-ups and 2025 look ahead articles have been written. Now it's time to get on to the work of 2025.
 
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The last Fed meeting of the year was last week. And the results were…interesting.  We got exactly what everyone expected and… the market hated it. Why? To paraphrase the poet/philosopher Britney Spears: Oops…Powell did it again!

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As we near the end of the year, this week will see the last “big” economic news: the Fed’s final meeting of 2024 and the subsequent release of their year-end Summary of Economic Projections (SEP). This SEP – and Powell’s subsequent comments – are going to go a long way for setting the tone for the economy as we enter 2025.

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We’ve heard of some crazy metrics in the market before. There are traders and analysts everywhere who will try to tell you that the market’s success or failure is tied to some obscure metric. The truth is, they can show you example after example of when X happened, Y happened. But there is a big difference between there being a correlation between those two events and X causing Y to happen. And that brings us to today’s topic: the McRib. Did you know its release is a strong indicator of stock market success? 😊 Sort of. It’s also a really interesting story.

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As we enter the final stretch of 2024, we begin to hear from the great prognosticators their predictions for how next year is going to play out in the markets. As these reports start to roll in, we thought we’d look at how well the experts predicted 2024 market outcomes. We think you’ll find the results interesting. And we hope they will color your view of the next round crystal ball polishing we’re about to see.

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Readers of our commentary have known for a long time where we stand on the Federal debt. The rapidly growing problem has long-term consequences which will eventually be borne by all of us. And there has been little effort by either party to enact meaningful solutions. But now an unlikely pair of fiscal hawks – Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy – have been tasked by President-elect Trump with fixing the problem. Is it fixable? And will their proposed solutions work?

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In the last edition of the Weekly Insight, we suggested that the market might be venturing into an “overbought” position and suggested it may need a bit of a breather before it made another step forward. We got just that last week as the market focus shifted from the election back to the topics that have been moving markets for the last few years: the Fed, interest rates, and inflation.

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Well, the election is behind us. Some Americans are very happy. Some are very unhappy. But, no matter what, the economy keeps moving and we need to keep moving with it.
 
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Tomorrow is a big day. And for many of us, it seems like the finish line for a long and grueling process. Sadly, when it comes to politics, there is no finish line. There will be more contentious issues to tackle after the election is done. And the same goes for the market and the economy. The FOMC is going to remind us of that later this week when they meet on Thursday to make their next interest rate decision.
 
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