Jeff For Banks

APRIL 27, 2019

Never Satisfied The markets never seem to be satisfied. The Federal Reserve recently took heed of market and economic messages, ending its tightening campaign and beginning its “patience” campaign. The markets hardly seemed satisfied with these two moves as they began building in rate cuts. A Win for the Ages !

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Jeff For Banks

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Financial Markets & Economic Update - Fourth Quarter 2023 Summer Update On this warm October day, I am staring at my Bloomberg screen, still heartbroken over the Phillies Phailure. But not in this market. Stock markets have been very volatile and are mostly down since the summer months. for the Case Shiller 20, +2.6%

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Jeff For Banks

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Shock went through the bond markets, especially at PIMCO, who found out about Gross’ exit along with the rest of us. She’s Getting Better at Press Conferences, But … The Federal Reserve has let the talk of rising interest rates hang over the markets like a fog. She was not very convincing. Thanks for reading!

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Jeff For Banks

JULY 8, 2017

The markets continue to roll and bond markets continue to trade in a 25 basis point range, hitting the higher end when they think the economy is strong (why else would the Fed raise rates?) Presidential Agenda I am very surprised that the markets are not having fits over the lack of progress on the presidential agenda.

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Jeff For Banks

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

After a lengthy stretch of strong economic growth and stock market gains, the inevitable correction arrived with force in the fourth quarter, culminating with a December that can only be described as “tres terrible!” A Long, Cold December I could just scream! The spread between 3 month and 10 year Treasuries is not much better, dropping to.23%

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Jeff For Banks

AUGUST 1, 2019

Financial Markets & Economic Update- Third Quarter, 2019 Summer is upon us and I cannot wait to get to the beach for vacation. Although business confidence fell from the uncertainty, stock markets were reaching new record highs on many of indices. What an amazing ride it’s been this year for bonds! GDP was +3.1% Thanks for reading!

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Jeff For Banks

MAY 2, 2014

The ice storm that hit our region (Philadelphia Region) with damage and over 700,0000 power outages was perhaps the worst storm. The equity markets are reaching new highs, expecting the economy to emerge from the deep freeze in the first quarter. Bond markets quickly adjusted to rate hikes sooner than expected.

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Jeff For Banks

APRIL 2, 2011

The World Around Us World events are impacting our markets. It is no surprise then that the confluence of these events chipped away at the stock market rally and set into motion the inevitable correction. Actually, stock markets are up nearly 100% since the Fed was in the midst of their first quantitative easing program in early 2009.

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Jeff For Banks

JANUARY 19, 2011

Rates Give Us a Wild Ride Bond market behavior in the fourth quarter of 2010 was one for the record books. Was it the belief that the economy will finally grow or was it Bernanke’s comments on 60 Minutes and in the newspaper that he wanted the stock market to rise? No wonder the markets are under pressure. So what happened?

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Jeff For Banks

JANUARY 19, 2013

more “promises,” and a constant flow of new money into the markets. The biggest beneficiary of all this Fed activity has been the stock market—which ended the year at some pretty good “handles,” with the Dow above 13,000, S&P 500 above 1,400, and the Nasdaq above 3,000.

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APRIL 10, 2015

A New Year of Volatility 2015 ushered in a whole new season of volatility in the bond and stock markets. Oil Steals the Show The biggest story of the past year in the markets has to be the plunging price of oil, down 50% in 2014 to below $50 per barrel. At least we are not in Boston. We need a change of seasons! Thanks for reading!

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Jeff For Banks

JANUARY 16, 2016

US stocks fell 6% to 7% during the first week of January, following world stock markets in a downward spiral. Its stock markets are said to have led the world markets plunge, with clumsy attempts by their regulators’ circuit breakers to stem declines actually making them worse. First and foremost, China is at it again.

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Jeff For Banks

JULY 24, 2015

If selling in stocks and bonds begins in earnest over this crisis, we will have some of the first tests of liquidity in the markets since new regulations kicked in and restricted financial institutions from trading or making markets. Thanks for reading! Dorothy has been with First Federal of Bucks County since November, 2004.

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Jeff For Banks

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

As far as the markets go, volatility has tamed down and prices respond to economic data releases and Fed speak, but not much else. 10/24/16 Dorothy Jaworski has worked at large and small banks for over 30 years; much of that time has been spent in investment portfolio management, risk management, and financial analysis.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 7, 2016

Payments and commerce solutions for unbanked in emerging markets. HQ: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Credit risk management. Tags: Enterprise, compliance, social media, regulations, marketing, Finovate alum. Latest round: $3 million Series B. Total raised: $7.5 HQ: Laguna Hills, California. Source: Crunchbase.

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JANUARY 12, 2015

The markets provide us with completely unexpected surprises and leave us scrambling to update our projections for rates and economic growth. 01/05/15 Dorothy Jaworski has worked at large and small banks for over 30 years; much of that time has been spent in investment portfolio management, risk management, and financial analysis.

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FICO

APRIL 17, 2021

Walk into another – the conference room with food and drinks – and you’ll catch marketing people analyzing the TOFU CTR, CR, and CAC on their latest B2B ABM campaign. Walk into another, and you’ll catch software developers comparing Waterfall vs. Agile vs. Scrum vs. XP vs. Lean. Before the Door Pictures).

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APRIL 22, 2018

Now, if Mother Nature would cooperate… Volatility The markets have been incredibly volatile in the first quarter of 2018. The spike in volatility was a wake-up call to every investor and market participant that thought “vols” would stay historically low forever. And most of all, it is a great time to be a Philadelphia sports fan!

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Jeff For Banks

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

His election has already brought change to the financial markets, sending stocks rising 6%, as measured on the S&P 500 index, and sending interest rates to their highest levels in years. Clearly, the markets expect change. The markets must think that GDP growth will soar on January 21 st. Thanks for reading!

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Jeff For Banks

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The markets are taking it all in stride, rallying strongly for most of this week and they seem more grateful for the prospect of a divided Congress, i.e, The markets believe the chance of tax hikes, repeals of tax cuts, and gigantic initiatives are greatly diminished. The housing market is robust across the nation. respectively.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Stock markets reacted very badly after the news of the rate cut and Powells press conference. The markets perceive improved GDP growth with less government cash flooding the economy and crowding out business, although the Feds projections from yesterday show a decline in GDP from 2.5% No wonder there is no inventory on the market.

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