Brad McMillan

Here's a quick update for this holiday-shortened week! From my perspective, two things mattered this week: The release of the FOMC meeting minutes The latest consumer sentiment reading Fed Suggests...

This was a week of good news pretty much across the board, which doesn't happen all that often. Congress managed to kick the can down the road again on spending, avoiding a governmental shutdown....

It’s time to go to the mailbox again for questions about a central bank digital currency—a digital dollar issued by the Fed here in the U.S. This is a bit of an obscure topic, but it seems to be...

Stock markets dropped for the third consecutive month in October, with financial markets getting hit by higher interest rates across the board. The U.S. indexes were down in the low-single digits for...

Stock markets dropped for the second month in a row in September, closing out a weak quarter for financial markets. The U.S. indices were down in the mid-single digits, which brought markets to...

There were two stories that mattered this week: interest rates and the jobs report for September. For the week as a whole, rate increases seem to have taken away from markets, as they tanked on an...

Last week was all about financial factors, primarily interest rates. But this week was all about the real economy, notably the United Auto Workers (UAW) strike and the pending government shutdown....

August saw modest market pullbacks across the board, as investors were nervous about risk. The U.S. indexes were down by low single digits, with the Nasdaq doing the worst. International markets also...

July was another good month for stocks across the board. The U.S. indexes were up in the low single digits, while international markets also did well. Riskier investments like the Nasdaq and emerging...

After a continued rally in April, markets largely pulled back in May. Exceptions here were the Nasdaq, which rose, and the S&P 500, which was essentially flat. The Dow Jones Industrial Average,...