Weekly Economic Update: August 23rd, 2022
Presented by Nicholas Wealth Management
August 23rd, 2022
Weekly Market Update
In this week’s recap: Markets tap the brakes but hold fast against downbeat news.
The Week on Wall Street
Stocks tumbled on Friday, sending stocks to a weekly loss after an otherwise quiet August week of trading.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped -0.16%, while the Standard & Poor’s 500 lost 1.21%. The Nasdaq Composite index declined 2.62% for the week. The MSCI EAFE index, which tracks developed overseas stock markets, fell 0.88%.1,2,3
Summer Rally Hits Pause Button
The market rally that began in mid-June paused last week. Despite the week’s losses, stocks exhibited resiliency in the face of a string of troubling economic news that included flat retail sales, weak housing numbers, an inversion in the yield curve, and tepid economic data out of China.
Nevertheless, stocks tumbled on Friday amid hawkish comments about future rate hikes, rising bond yields, and ahead of the annual meeting of global central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, in which Fed Chair Jerome Powell is scheduled to speak on August 26th.
Expect More Rate Hikes
Minutes from July's Federal Open Market Committee meeting indicated that additional rate hikes would be needed to help manage inflation. Fed officials did acknowledge that further rate hikes risked unintended economic weakness because of the time it takes for higher rates to work through the economy. The committee indicated that they might slow rate hikes to determine the impact of previous rate increases.4
The minutes also contained the Fed's latest economic forecasts, which projected inflation to decline faster than its June estimate due to a bigger economic slowdown in the year's second half. 5
Tip of the Week
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The stock market ➡️ Continuing its summer rally. The bond market ➡️ Predicting a slowdown. David joined Charles Payne on Fox Business last Thursday, 8/18, to discuss this problem and why they both can't be right.
CITATIONS:
- The Wall Street Journal, August 19, 2022
- The Wall Street Journal, August 19, 2022
- The Wall Street Journal, August 19, 2022
- The Wall Street Journal, August 17, 2022
- The Wall Street Journal, August 17, 2022
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