RZG News and Press, Invesco S&P Smallcap 600 Pure Growth From 06/16/22

The Fed's move wasn't entirely surprising, after markets were tipped off by a Wall Street Journal story late Monday indicating that a 75 basis-point (bps) hike was likely. At the press conference, Chairman Powell commented that by the end of 2022, the central bank intends to raise its...

Fed officials’ new economic projections show they unanimously agree the fed funds rate needs to be above neutral by year-end. As a result of the tighter monetary policy tightening path, Fed officials downgraded their growth and unemployment forecasts. Fed officials signaled...

AIER’s Leading Indicators Index returned to a neutral 50 reading in May, rising four points following an eight-point fall in April. While broad trends and risks continue, there are some signs of inflection in a few areas. The Roughly Coincident Indicators index fell back in...

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The Fed, as expected, announced a 75 basis point rate hike at today's FOMC meeting. Not a whole lot new was revealed by Chair Powell during the afternoon press conference. Stocks and bonds rallied, commodities were mixed, and crypto did not participate in the buying. The U.S. Doll...

April’s inflation figures came in hotter than expected, and there are plenty of signs suggesting tomorrow’s report on May CPI will only add to that trend. Single most important factor in reining in inflation is the public’s confidence in the central bank’s ...

Inflation continues to rise due to the inability for global supply chains to meet consumer demand. The Fed raised rates by 75 basis points in an effort to reduce consumer spending power. History supports the notion that we're closer to the bottom than we are to the top, and stocks...

The Producer Price Index (PPI) rose 0.8% month-on-month, according to the May data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Wholesale prices continue to rise even faster than the CPI, indicating producers are still eating some of their rising costs. With the transitory narrativ...

When money is virtually free for borrowers and near-nil yielding for investors, many people do dumb stuff with money. But when rates rise sharply, the riskiest bets blow up, and investors get reminded that capital options are far from equal. Return of principal matters most in the...

The latest move of the S&P 500 places three major indices fully in the bear’s forest - the Russell 2000, the Nasdaq and now, at last, and firmly, the S&P 500. Never before has the Nasdaq (now down more than 30% since the start of the year) had so many stocks that are do...