Financial Focus – March 2nd, 2022
Listen to this week’s Financial Focus as David Nelson discusses interest rate hike cycles and how different scenarios have varying degrees of impact on the stock market and other risk assets.
Crisis Events
The stock market has shown some volatile moves since Russia’s incursion into Ukraine last week. David Nelson joins Local 4 News to explain how we attempt to gauge the potential for lasting effects on the market from this type of geopolitical event.
Uncertainty Abounds
OVERVIEW Another volatile week on Wall Street saw the major U.S. stock indices end in mixed territory. The S&P 500 rose 0.82%, the Dow declined 0.06%, and the NASDAQ rose 1.08%. Growth stocks had a good week, climbing around 1.12%, followed closely by the...
What Happens to Stocks When the Fed Tightens Its Belt?
This week’s chart shows the average performance of the S&P 500 index a year after the Federal Reserve first starts a new monetary tightening cycle. What is a tightening cycle, you might ask? It’s the opposite of an easing cycle, meaning instead of lowering...