Resource Type Blog (351) Guide (9) Podcast (148) Topic Retirement Planning (30) IRA (4) Economy (21) Financial Planning (12) Income Planning (2) Legacy Planning (8) Wealth Advisor (2) Investment Planning (3) Tax Planning (2) Weekly Economic Update (266) Author Sort By Recent A - Z Z - A Results 1–12 of 351 blog Apr 2026 Weekly Economic Update: April 21st, 2026 Records are back — and so is some relief It might have sounded unthinkable last week when we said new record highs were just around the corner. Well,… Read More blog Apr 2026 Weekly Economic Update: April 16th, 2026 “Ceasefire trade” was on last week After President Trump announced Iran had agreed to hold ceasefire talks last Tuesday — mere hours before his… Read More blog Apr 2026 Weekly Economic Update: April 7th, 2026 A Strong Start The quarter opened with genuine momentum. The S&P 500 was closing in on 7,000 points, while the Dow approached the 50,000 mark.… Read More blog Mar 2026 Weekly Economic Update: March 31st, 2026 Mission not yet accomplished As Operation Epic Fury enters its fifth week, we have yet to see the Iranian regime offer any type of openness to… Read More blog Mar 2026 Weekly Economic Update: March 24th, 2026 Markets struggle as “war premium” weighs on investors Wall Street started last week on a cautiously optimistic note. The S&P 500® climbed 1% on… Read More blog Mar 2026 Weekly Economic Update: March 17th, 2026 Conflict and oil prices drive markets downward Epic Fury, the sustained bombing campaign of Iran by the U.S. and Israel that began on February 28,… Read More blog Mar 2026 Weekly Economic Update: March 10th, 2026 Iran conflict, oil prices send stocks lower and bond yields higher We focus on financial data or earnings most of the time, and most of the time the… Read More blog Mar 2026 Weekly Economic Update: March 3rd, 2026 Markets react to strikes on Iran Over the weekend, the U.S. and Israel launched a joint military operation targeting key Iranian leadership. Iran’s… Read More blog Feb 2026 Weekly Economic Update: February 24th, 2026 Markets shrug off low GDP report Normally, bad news is, well, bad. But a weak fourth-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) number didn’t seem to faze… Read More blog Feb 2026 Weekly Economic Update: February 17th, 2026 Markets take another step back as ‘consolidation’ sets in The markets continued their wild gyrations last week, hitting records one day and giving up… Read More blog Feb 2026 Weekly Economic Update: February 10th, 2026 The wild trading continues We started the week with a partial government shutdown, which was quickly resolved.1 However, funding for the Department… Read More blog Feb 2026 Weekly Economic Update: February 3rd 2026 Trump taps Warsh for Fed chair January came to an end last week — and we can’t say the final week of the first month was uneventful. To no one’s… Read More Load More Results 1-12 of 351