Negative ISM Data vs. Positive Geopolitics

Geopolitical exogenous events continue to rattle markets and are creeping into the macro-fundamentals by way of economic data. U.S. equity markets were set to open lower on Tuesday and after the elongated holiday weekend, as additional tariffs were levied against China on September 1st. While that geopolitical issue was met with a flight from risk…

Recession Risks Rising!

Global and domestic markets went on a roller coaster ride from Sunday night through Monday’s U.S. trading session. Headlines coming from the G-7 summit stated that the U.S. received multiple calls from China concerning trade. President Donald Trump said Monday that China is ready to come back to the negotiating table and the two countries…

State of the Markets: 8/23/2019

Welcome to this week’s State of the Markets. Please click the following link to review the SOTM video . Our emphasis in this week’s SOTM video concerns the geopolitical issues around trade, underlying economic data that gathers less attention due to the flare-ups on the trade front and certain of the details coming out of the Jackson Hole summit. Global equities…