Daniel Yu, CFA®, CFP®, AIF®

GDP Report Shows Solid Growth Coming into the week of January 29th, the latest look at Gross Domestic Product (GDP) showed quite positive at an...

Retail Sales Coming into the week of January 22nd, we begin our economic update with retail sales which increased both month-over-month and year-over-year. The year-over-year...

CPI Shows Persistent Inflation Last week the Consumer Price Index (CPI) was the biggest economic release. CPI headline inflation increased for the month and also...

Perhaps the biggest surprise of 2023 was the strength of the U.S. economy. Not only did we avoid a recession, but we had solid headline...

Last week we received a number of important economic data points, with the PCE (a measure of inflation) being perhaps the most important. In their...

Fed Holds Rates Steady For Now The Federal Reserve Open Market Committee (FOMC) met last week for their final meeting of 2023. They held rates...

Coming into the week of December 11, the biggest economic news is the jobs report showing payroll growth increasing to 199,000 from November's reading of...

Last week brought several key economic data releases, with the PCE price index, the Fed's preferred inflation measure, being one of the most notable. The...

Higher for Longer Remains Base Case We begin with the release of Fed's minutes from their last meeting. Members of the Federal Open Market Committee...

Last week, we received several economic data points, with the Consumer Price Index (CPI) perhaps being the most important as a measure of inflation. On a...