VUSE News and Press, ETF Series Solutions Trust Vident Core US Equity From 09/19/22

Summary After the August inflation report card flunked, the Fed meets this week to further address inflation. Markets expect either a 75 bps or a 100 bps hike. The "Everything Bubble" is rapidly deflating as the Fed pivots to allow markets to clear rather than artificially support...

Summary The U.S. CPI report is still the most important economic report of the month. The violent sell-off in response to what was a small upside surprise to U.S. core inflation in August is all you need to know. Markets would like to see a sustained roll-over in inflation and an ...

Summary Mitigating the impact of inflation might mean cutting interest rate sensitivity by favoring shorter-dated fixed income but also trimming speculative growth exposure in equity portfolios. The market appears to seize on any sign of easing inflation to be bullish, while remai...

Summary The first half of the year saw GDP contract slightly and GDI expand slightly, and I interpret that as little to no growth. The money market futures I follow and the market based models I track all put the peak in rates somewhere between March and June of next year. I d...

Summary Economists, analysts, casual market observers, the Fed, and central banks' many critics all have one thing in common. Almost without exception, they assume monetary policy can be an effective check on inflation. In a world where, to quote Zoltan Pozsar, "the price of e...

Summary Core CPI, excludes food and energy, rose from July's year-over-year reading of 5.9% to a YoY rate of 6.3% in August. FedEx reported dismal earnings on Friday sending the stock down 21%. A large part of the economic data seems to be indicating the economy is slowing. ...

Summary S&P 500 operating margins are at an all-time high. We expect reversion because of wage pressures, cost inflation, cost of debt rising and top line growth waning. Is the stock market a popping bubble? Perhaps it’s just deflating? By Douglas R. Ter...

Summary At the end of the week, the stock market responded to something other than Federal Reserve and the fight against inflation. FedEx Corp. announced that its revenues were coming in at a slower pace than expected and that it was laying off people, closing offices, and cutting...

Summary The Fed has no room for errors at this week's FOMC meeting. The communications must be crystal to avoid a repeat of the July disaster. The Fed needs the market to cave in to its demands. For further details see: The Fed Needs T...

Summary The median economist forecast is for more inflation and higher unemployment than the Fed's median projection in June. The Bank of Japan meeting ends early on September 22, and the Bank of England meeting a few hours later. Japan will report August inflation figures a few d...