RZG News and Press, Invesco S&P Smallcap 600 Pure Growth From 06/10/22

Little has happened at the Fed this week as everyone is waiting for the next meeting of the Fed's Federal Open Market Committee. At the next meeting, the Fed is expected to raise its policy rate of interest by 50 basis points and is expected to begin shrinking its securities portfolio...

The traditional “Old Economy” sectors of Energy, Industrials and Materials have experienced a torrid pace of earnings growth with little sign of slowing. The earnings outlook for Financials has arguably been the direst of late. Certain sectors—Energy and Indus...

Seasonally adjusted initial jobless claims came in well above expectations today, rising from 202K to 229K. Compared to the seasonally adjusted number, whose 27K increase was the largest since July of last year, unadjusted claims experienced a meager 1K uptick relative to last week. ...

Initial claims for regular state unemployment insurance rose 27,000 for the week ending June 4, coming in at 229,000, the highest level since January 15th. The four-week average rose for the eighth time in the last nine weeks, coming in at 215,000, up 8,000 from the prior week and at ...

There are a number of signals that the US economy is getting weaker even as inflation gets stronger. In other words, we are hurtling toward stagflation. Target announced plans to cancel orders from suppliers and slash prices to clear out amassed inventory. All the data points to o...

The Chinese government's execution of its zero-COVID policy has slammed trade between the U.S. and China. China's exports to the U.S. fell below the level of recent months, but still recorded double-digit year-over-year growth as progress is being made in reducing the backlog of Chine...

Much Fed and commentator thinking relies on the Phillips curve. It's the central way interest rates affect inflation, in conventional thinking. High interest rates raise real interest rates lower aggregate demand cause unemployment, which causes, via the Phillips curve, lower inflatio...

The latest PMI data compiled for JPMorgan by S&P Global revealed an unwelcome mix of sluggish global economic growth and soaring business costs in May. Although global output growth picked up slightly in May, it remained at one of the weakest levels seen so far in the pandemic rec...

2022 is shaping up to be a very bad year for average Americans. Adjusted for inflation, the average earned income for Americans peaked in December 2021, falling in each month since. One of the more interesting aspects of the inflation unleased in the U.S. is how different it is fr...

It seems as if everything is out-of-sync these days as the transition of the economy through a pandemic, a recession, a supply chain problem, a technological transformation, and more dominate. The economy has been described as being in disequilibrium, being dislocated, and being disjo...