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S&P 500 comes back with a roar

March 12, 2018 by Tim Fleischer Leave a Comment

The Markets

The S&P 500 Stock Index (SPX) came back with a roar as the index rose to close at 2786.57, up 3.54% for the week.

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S&P 500 index down 6.4% from high mark

March 8, 2018 by Tim Fleischer Leave a Comment

The Markets

The S&P 500 Stock Index (“SPX”), our preferred proxy for the U.S. stock market, closed out the week at 2691.25, down 2.4 percent for the week, and down about 6.4 percent from its recent high mark near the end of last month.

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Money supply is blood supply of economy

March 1, 2018 by Tim Fleischer Leave a Comment

The Markets

The venerable S&P 500 Stock Index ended the week with a small but productive gain of 0.55 percent.

The market bobbed around a bit but held its ground for the week following its 10 percent decline early in the month and then its recovery of about half that value by mid-month. It remains down 4.37 percent for one month, up 2.76 percent year-to-date and up a healthy 16 percent for one year. Gold declined 1.39 percent to $1,330.80 for the week but remained up about 4.35 percent for one year. The 10-year US Treasury note closed out the week about where it started at a 2.87 percent yield after briefly rising to nearly 3 percent at mid-week. Oil continued its slow rise to $63.57, up 3.33 percent for the week and 17.44 percent for one year.

The Economy

All the indicators, including the iconic Conference Board’s Index of Leading Economic Indicators, released on Feb. 22, point to an accelerating and healthy economy for at least the next six months. In the short to intermediate term, all lights are green and the economic engine is revving up! The Federal Reserve’s January notes, released on the 21st, indicated that the Open Market Committee saw an increasing economic growth rate for the next year or more and planned to raise interest rates in response. Meanwhile, the Labor Department reported the lowest number of unemployment claims since 1973! New manufacturing orders are surging as are business capital expansion plans. Moody’s Analytics though is forecasting that the outlook for 2019 is beginning to look like stormy weather.

  Going back at least 250 years, the developed economies of the world have tended to have ten-year economic cycles. Around the years ending in “0,” plus or minus a couple of years, there generally have been economic downturns, some severe and some less so. Those are followed by expansions such as the one we have seen since 2009. Towards the end of the typical ten-year cycle, the expansions have tended to “overheat”, then stall into an economic “crash.” Recently we have seen those “crashes” in 2000-2002 and in 2008-2009.

As a side note, from an investor’s perspective, forecasting the exact time when such things happen is a fool’s game, so we advocate holding a steady course. Market timing has the worst record of any investment strategy.

The various schools of economics often disagree on the finer points, but all are in complete accord that major moves in economic growth or decline center around the money supply and the velocity at which it moves around in the economy. Money supply in an economy can be compared with the blood supply in a human body. If blood pressure falls either from blood loss or insufficient circulatory impulse, the body declines and goes into shock. Alternatively, if blood pressure rises too much, organs start to fail in the longer term, and that can be devastating.

One of the prime reasons developed economies have central banks like the U.S. Federal Reserve Board (“the Fed”), is an attempt to cushion those sometimes devastating “booms” and “crashes.” One of the prime missions of the Fed is to raise interest rates to reduce the money supply when the economy approaches full capacity and then to infuse money back into the economy during economic downturns. Ideally, the federal government would do the same, borrowing and spending in bad times then taxing and paying off the debt in good times. When all that happens in sync, historically, neither the expansion nor the downturn tends to be excessive.

The issue we face today is that the economy is running at near full capacity, but Congress and the President just created a law that added about two trillion dollars to the money supply, a percentage greater than any we have seen since World War II. Much of that newly created (borrowed) money will hit the economy this year and next. Economic theory warns that if a large amount of money is infused into an economy when it is already running hot, it will tend to overspeed, generate inflation and higher long-term interest rates, then stall out as it burns through its capacity.

What happens over the next few years will likely be prominent in economics textbooks for the next century as we charge into the future in a grand test of an economic theory, and some would say, imprudence.

Jeffrey W. McClure MS CFP®
Jeffrey W. McClure MS CFP®
The Personal Wealth Coach®
P.O. Box 1029, 918 N Main Street
Salado, TX 76571
(254) 947-1111 or (800) 914-7526
jeff@tpwc.com

Filed Under: Stock Market and Economic Report Tagged With: economy, futures, investments, labor, Main Street, money supply, S&P 500, stock market, technology, Wall Street

Dollar falls to lowest point in 3 years

February 22, 2018 by Tim Fleischer Leave a Comment

The Markets

The stock market, as represented by the S&P 500 Stock Index (“SPX”) continued in a classic “correction” behavior. Also, the dollar fell to its lowest point in three years.

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Markets move downward

February 8, 2018 by Tim Fleischer Leave a Comment

The Markets

The S&P 500 Stock Index (SPX) along with the rest of the equity indices proved as February began that they can move downward as well as up. The SPX ended the week down 3.85 percent to close at 2762.13. The Index remains up over 20 percent for the last 12 months and is up 3.31 percent year-to-date and those are still impressive numbers.

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Gross domestic product growth increase 2.3%

February 1, 2018 by Tim Fleischer Leave a Comment

The Markets

For the week ending on Jan. 26, the S&P 500 (SPX) set another record, its 14th this month, closing at 2872.87, up 2.23 percent for the week. As January draws to a close, the SPX is up 7.45 percent just for this month!  Even that pales with the one-year rise of over 25 percent. Gross domestic product reports show growth of 2.3%.

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Long-term indicators still point to continue growth

January 25, 2018 by Tim Fleischer Leave a Comment

The Markets

The S&P 500 Stock Index (SPX) closed out the third week of the year with a solid gain of 0.86 percent putting the index up 5.11 percent in 2018 and a whopping 23.73 percent since this time last year, closing at 2810.30, an indicator of continued growth.

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