SPMO News and Press, Invesco S&P 500 Momentum From 03/22/24

2024-03-22 05:05:00 ET Summary As was widely expected, the Federal Reserve decided to leave the Fed funds rate unchanged at its March 20 FOMC meeting. Despite the 2024 gross domestic product growth expectations rising to 2.1% from 1.4%, the unemployment rate still near historic 50...

2024-03-22 04:40:00 ET Summary Further expansions of manufacturing and service sector output in March helped close off another quarter of likely robust GDP growth for the US economy. Service providers reported a slower pace of expansion than factories, with the rate of increase al...

2024-03-22 03:45:00 ET Summary Money supply growth fell again in January, remaining deep in negative territory after turning negative in November 2022 for the first time in twenty-eight years. Since April 2021, money supply growth has slowed quickly, and since late 2022, we've bee...

2024-03-22 03:00:00 ET Summary At Wednesday’s FOMC meeting the Fed stood by their estimate of 3 rate cuts in 2024. The reason the Fed hasn’t moved to cut just yet is because they’re still a little cautious about another flare-up in inflation. There was a l...

2024-03-22 01:10:00 ET Summary The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) chose to keep the benchmark policy rate at 5.25%-5.50%. The latest dot plot revealed the committee continues to expect 75 basis points of cuts this year. The Fed did not make any announcements with regards...

2024-03-21 14:50:00 ET Summary Fed keeps rates unchanged. US economy continues to show resilience. Is a June rate cut still in the cards for the Fed this year? ... Read the full article on Seeking Alpha For further details see: Fed Keeps Interest ...

2024-03-21 08:10:00 ET Summary Applied to the employment situation of U.S. teens, the phrase "gradually and then suddenly" is relevant because we're seeing some small changes in the trends being reported in the employment data for this demographic group. As a percentage of the ava...

2024-03-21 07:30:00 ET Summary The Federal Reserve triggered a dollar sell-off yesterday and follow-through selling was seen in Asia before profit-taking emerged. The G10 currencies are mixed ahead of the North American open. Outside of China, the large equity markets in Asia ...

2024-03-21 06:52:00 ET Summary Every part of my being knew that I could not liquidate my portfolio, but my emotions kept driving me towards the sell button. I realized that betting against the US economy and equity markets was akin to betting against the policymakers, human ingenu...

2024-03-21 01:45:00 ET Summary On Tuesday, March 19, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) raised their policy rate for the first time since 2007 by 10 bps to a range of 0 to 0.1%. We think the Fed could cut 2-3 times (0.25% each) in the back half of this year, which is in line with both market...