SCHX News and Press, Schwab U.S. Large-Cap From 07/19/22

With prices rising 9.1% year-over-year and outpacing growth in wages, it may be like a recession for those who feel their purchasing power eroding. Thus far in 2022, employment growth has remained robust. With high inflation, it’s clear that consumers in the U.S. and many o...

Currently, the popular view is that the recession will be short and shallow. Well, it might be, but it’s appropriate to consider the outcomes. Industrial prices lead wholesale, retail, and consumer prices. The JOC-ECRI Industrial Price Index fell -3.14% this week and is down -9...

On Wednesday, the Consumer Price Index came in at a 9.1% annual rate. The higher-than-expected reading puts the CPI at a new 41-year high. Businesses are also getting squeezed. On Thursday, the Producer Price Index showed wholesale costs rising at a massive 11.3% year-over-year. T...

The US yield spread has inverted, and the 2-year yield is now higher than the 10-year yield. This phenomenon has been a well-known predictor of recessions. A yield spread inversion between the 10-year yield and 3-month yield has been a better predictor of recessions than the more popu...

The ClearBridge Recession Risk dashboard is a group of 12 variables that identify inflection points for the US economy. The risks of recession are continuing to elevate. In the middle of last month, we updated our recession odds to 55% over the next 18 months. The key question for...

One perspective on Real GDP growth is simply aggregate hours worked X the output per hour worked. Aggregate hours worked in the economy is peaking, per capita has already peaked. The other variable, output per hour, is going to continue to fall on account of higher input costs. ...

The Federal Reserve has hardly covered itself in glory by having failed to anticipate recent major turning points in the US economy. The Fed again appears poised to miss yet another major economic turning point. By failing to heed the clear warning signs that we are headed for a r...

The core rate of U.S. inflation on both the consumer and wholesale level has been steadily declining since March. In light of the Supreme Court’s recent decision to curb the EPA’s power, the SEC’s new climate disclosures are expected to be aggressively challenged ...

Recession risk is rising, which inevitably leads to a discussion and debate about what exactly defines such an event. NBER is widely admired as the gold standard for identifying the start and end dates of US economic contractions. We can look (slightly) ahead to the immediate futu...

Bear markets result from market transactions based on investment outlooks which are sometimes wrong. Most often bear markets lead to recessions, but not always. Nothing very good or bad came to investors’ attention from the news last week. The news about employment, inflation, ...