Market Insights

The Weatherstone Markets Outlook is a quarterly assessment on relevant market and economic conditions. Through compelling charts, graphs and discussion, this outlook will provide an update on what has transpired over the past quarter – as well as share our perspective on how we are positioned from an investment standpoint going forward. Quarterly “Capital Markets…

In the last couple of weeks, we saw a stronger than expected report on inflation, which dashed hopes that the pace of inflation had begun to slow down.  In response, the Federal Reserve Bank, at its regular scheduled meeting last Tuesday and Wednesday, raised short-term interest rates by .75%, the largest increase since 1994, in…

Will Interest Rates Ever Rise Again? One of the byproducts of the Coronavirus recession has been a return to record low interest rates around the world, with many countries back at near zero or even negative interest rates.  I want to spend a few minutes to highlight some challenges that we may see in the…

A Bear Market for Bonds? The 1st quarter of 2021 has been positive for stocks but a very poor quarter for some bond market segments.  One of the most commonly followed bond benchmarks, the Barclays Aggregate Bond Index, has had its 4th worst quarterly performance since 1979 with a loss of 3.37%.  The first quarter…