May
8
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Money with Murphy – Job Market Jigsaw: Putting the Pieces Together
Last week, we got the first evidence in months that the job market is weakening. In April, 175,000 new jobs were created. That level of...
May
1
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Markets in a Minute: The Over/Under on Housing
The Over/Under on Housing If you’ve bought a house in the past four years, then you know how difficult it has been to navigate...
Apr
25
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Money with Murphy – Gold: Peak or Possibilities?
From Cleopatra’s attempts to use alchemy to turn lead into gold, to California’s gold rush that drew hundreds of thousands of fortune seekers, gold has...
Apr
17
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Higher Ground: First Quarter Market Review and Outlook
Takeaways · The U.S. economy continued to show resilience despite elevated inflation and high interest rates, dampening expectations of interest-rate cuts · The broad stock...
Apr
10
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Money with Murphy: Q1 Market Review
In the first quarter of this year, the S&P 500 had an impressive start, ending the quarter up over 10%, its strongest first quarter since...
Apr
3
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Money with Murphy: Gas Prices on the Rise
Since the beginning of the year, the average price of a gallon of gas in the US has jumped 14%, denting many consumers’ wallets and...
Mar
28
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Markets in a Minute: Inflation and the Fed
Last week, the Federal Reserve announced no change to interest rates and threw water on any hopes for a rate cut at its next meeting...
Mar
20
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Markets in a Minute: Japan’s Transition Out of the Lost Decades
Why Hike Now?: Wages For most of the last 30 years, prices in Japan have grown at a rate below 2%. Then, like many countries...
Mar
12
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Money with Murphy: 4th Quarter Earnings Season
Corporate earnings grew by 4% compared to the previous year, with nearly 75% of companies reporting earnings that were better than expected. While those beat...
Mar
6
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Markets in a Minute: Supply Chain Disruptions, Again?
Beginning in the early days of Covid, supply chains around the world became snarled, making it difficult to find everything from couches to computer chips...
