Dear friendsIn October, markets continued to face many economic challenges and uncertainties. Increasing interest rates, the strong dollar and decelerating consumer spending impacted corporate earnings. In addition, US inflation was…
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Penta Strategies 2022 September
Dear Friends As the latest U.S. inflation report remained stubbornly high, the S&P 500 plunged more than 5% in a week on fears that the Fed would have to continue…
Penta Strategies 2022 August
Dear Friends Last month actually started with great news in the U.S.: a stellar jobs report, unemployment rate down to 3.5% (the lowest since 1969), inflation down slightly to 8.5%,…
Penta Strategies 2022 July
Dear friends The U.S. economy added 372,000 jobs in June, and wages have risen 5.1% over the past 12 months. With the unemployment rate at 3.6%, there are still nearly…
Penta Strategies 2022 June
Dear friends Last month, top executives from JP Morgan, Wells Fargo, BlackRock and Morgan Stanley again voiced pessimism at an investor conference that factors such as consumer confidence, inflation, the…
Penta Strategies 2022 May
Dear friends The past month has once again broken records in the wrong direction: The S&P 500 was off to its worst 100-day start in a long time, only 1932…