John Lynch

The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE: SPY) traded higher in a volatile session on Wednesday following the Federal Reserve's largest interest rate hike since 1994. The Federal Open Market Committee opted to raise fed funds rates by 0.75% on Wednesday to a new target range of between 1.5%...

The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE: SPY) traded lower by 0.5% Friday morning after the Labor Department reported strong U.S. jobs market numbers from April. The U.S. added 428,000 jobs in April, beating consensus economist estimates of 400,000 jobs. The U.S. unemployment rate remained at 3.6%,...

The Federal Reserve raised its target fed funds rate by 0.5% on Wednesday to a new range of between 0.75% and 1.0%, its first rate hike of at least half a percentage point in more than 20 years. The Fed also said it will begin reducing the size of its balance sheet starting on June 1. “...

The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust SPY (NYSE: SPY) traded higher by 0.9% on Tuesday morning after the Labor Department reported an 8.5% increase in the consumer price index in the month of March, the highest inflation growth since 1981. What Happened: The headline CPI rose 8.6% in March, above...

The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE: SPY) traded higher Tuesday after the U.S. Labor Department reported a 9.7% increase in the producer price index in the month of January, far outpacing economist expectations. The PPI climbed 1% compared to December, double the 0.5% monthly increase...

The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE: SPY) traded lower by 0.2% Friday morning after the Labor Department reported encouraging U.S. jobs market numbers from January. The U.S. added 467,000 jobs in January, beating consensus economist estimates of 150,000 jobs. The U.S. unemployment rate ticked...

In the past three months, investors have grown increasingly concerned about the negative potential impact of elevated inflation levels and rising interest rates in 2022. But while stock prices and cryptocurrency prices have lagged, gold has outshined them both. Golden Performance: In the past three...

The U.S. Labor Department reported on Wednesday a 7% increase in the consumer price index (CPI) in the month of December, the fastest inflation growth since 1982. Some investors are concerned true inflation levels are higher than the CPI suggests. CPI Vs. PPI: To calculate the CPI, the Bureau of...

The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE: SPY) traded higher by 0.4% on Wednesday morning after the Labor Department reported a 7% increase in the consumer price index in the month of December, the fastest inflation growth since 1982. What Happened: The headline CPI rose 7% in November, in-line with...

The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE: SPY) traded lower by 0.3% Friday morning after the Labor Department reported disappointing U.S. jobs market numbers from December. The U.S. added 199,000 jobs in December, missing consensus economist estimates of 422,000 jobs. The U.S. unemployment rate fell to...

The first half of 2020 was one of the strangest in recent memory, and the COVID-19 outbreak rages on in the U.S. and around the world. However, Wall Street actually held up fairly well in a volatile first half of the year, with the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE: SPY) down just 2.2% overall after...

The Federal Reserve is expected to maintain its target interest rate range at between 1.5% and 1.75% on Wednesday afternoon when it releases its post-meeting statement at 2 p.m. Investors will be watching for any surprise changes to rates and indications from the Fed about where rates could be...

The third-quarter reporting season has kickstarted, with the big banks turning in mixed results.  Notwithstanding muted expectations for the quarter, an analyst at LPL Financial is hopeful about the future. Little To Cheer In Q3  The third-quarter earnings season does not hold much...

Value stocks have underperformed growth stocks for over a decade, and 2019 is no exception. So far this year, the Vanguard Growth ETF (NYSE: VUG) is up 23.5%, while the Vanguard Value ETF (NYSE: VTV) is up just 13.7%. JPMorgan recently said value stocks are currently trading at their largest...

U.S. markets fell on Wednesday after the yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell below the yield on 2-year Treasury notes on Wednesday morning for the first time since 2007. According to the San Francisco Fed, each of the nine U.S. recessions that have occurred since 1955 came between six months...