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Tuesday’s Market Minute: Watching Rates & US Dollar

This week has some relief from the break-neck, fast paced, rapid fire release of economic data and earnings we’ve seen the last few weeks; let’s take a market minute to get ahead of what some movers. In terms of economic data this week, traders and investors will be keeping an eye on the JOLTS Wednesday to kick things off.

CASY

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Thursday’s Market Minute: To Taper Or Not To Taper; That Is The Question!

For the rest of the week, the focus for investors and traders will be squarely on the Fed at the Jackson Hole Symposium as we await comments from chair Jerome Powell on Friday. Market participants are looking for further insight as to the Fed’s position on when they expect to begin tapering the $120B in monthly asset purchases currently in place.

ANF

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Tuesday’s Market Minute: Markets Rally On FDA Vaccine Approval

Investors may be scratching their heads at the resiliency shown by the major U.S. stock indices as of late. Despite the Delta variant unleashing renewed fears of economic shutdowns globally and other factors that should be dampening markets – supply chain issues, labor and semiconductor shortages, inflation – stocks remain at all-time-highs.

BNTX

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Wednesday’s Market Minute: Earnings Outlook: The US Economy Can’t Handle Another Lockdown

Thursday, last week after work. I jump on the last remaining Divvy bike outside my office and ride across the city to Chicago’s Gold Coast. I’m looking for a new suit. The first place I go to is completely slammed. Men are getting fitted for a return to their office for the first time in a year, and one group is getting prepared for a wedding.

JWN