IVW News and Press, iShares S&P 500 Growth From 02/15/24

2024-02-15 02:00:00 ET Summary Cost or quality of labor (combined) accounts for the largest share of small business problems at 31% of firms. Inflation ranks highly among small businesses, but this reading has improved markedly since peaking at 37% in July 2022. Stealing from ...

2024-02-14 12:30:00 ET Summary On average, US equity returns have tended to be strongest in January, compared to the other 11 months of the year. When the S&P 500 Index rises in January, full year returns have tended to be positive, leading some to call January a performance p...

2024-02-14 09:39:00 ET Summary The total value of goods the United States exchanged with every other nation on Earth declined in 2023. Trade between the U.S. and the world has been shrinking since February 2023 as a result of President Biden's trade policies. When we exclude t...

2024-02-14 07:30:00 ET Summary The dollar was driven higher, and it is stabilizing today, though the euro and sterling extended their losses, most of the other G10 currencies did not. After the yen's six-week slide did not elicit a response from Japanese officials, yesterday's dro...

2024-02-14 03:35:00 ET Summary As S&P 500 hits record territory, can the rally continue? What Wall Street's rally says about rate cut expectations. Are there risks to the current market rally? U.S. Markets are being tested after making record-breaking highs. Mich...

2024-02-14 00:30:00 ET Summary At the headline level, the NFIB report came in weaker than expected, with optimism dropping to 89.9 versus expectations of an increase to 92.3. Under the hood, that weaker sentiment number was a result of overall bad breadth, including a couple of si...

2024-02-13 23:25:00 ET Summary The January CPI overshot expectations by 0.1% and the stock market had convulsions. If it weren't for shelter costs, which now comprise 25% of the CPI, the year-over-year change in the CPI would have been 1.6%, well below the Fed's target. Over t...

2024-02-13 23:00:00 ET Summary The AIER Everyday Price Index rose 0.52 percent to 284.8 in January 2024. Headline CPI rose 3.1 percent from January 2023 to January 2024, higher than expectations for a 2.9 percent reading. The January 2024 CPI report highlights the challenges o...

2024-02-13 19:35:00 ET Summary The January Consumer Price Index (CPI) showed that inflation was, once again, hotter than expected, frustrating both the market and the Federal Reserve (Fed). Both headline and core monthly inflation accelerated, while the Fed’s favored superc...

2024-02-13 18:25:00 ET Summary The consumer price index (CPI) for January showed that core inflation held steady at a rate of 3.9% last month, a small setback in a trend of moderating inflation in the U.S. Healing in global supply chains and a rebalancing of the U.S. labor market ...