How Interest Rate Cuts Can Impact Your Investments

2024-08-29

Price gouging claims debunked! Implementing price controls can lead to shortages. Let’s talk inflation. 📉💸 #EconomicInsights

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2024-08-29

Nvidia beat average analyst expectations to deliver on high expectations. But for investors accustomed to excessively large beats, a just "above-expectations" delivery tastes a little flat. Lance Roberts & Michael Lebowitz also explain how the level of U.S. Treasury yields and the changing shape of the Treasury yield curve provide investors with critical feedback regarding the market’s expectations for economic growth, inflation, and monetary policy.

Hosted by RIA Advisors Chief Investment Strategist, Lance Roberts, CIO, w Portfolio Manager, Michael Lebowitz, CFA
Produced by Brent Clanton, Executive Producer
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"Yield Curve

2024-08-25

Understand your investment fees! Check your expense ratios, opt for low-cost options like ETFs/index funds. Watch those fees add up. 📈💸 #FinancialTips

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2024-07-01

The Supreme Court strikes down the Chevron Deference that allowed government agencies to dictate policy, bypassing Congress. This may be the biggest decision since their relegation of abortion policy back to the states in striking down Roe v Wade. Meanwhile, markets end the 2nd quarter somewhat sloppily, but still positive for the year, possibly portending a positive finish for the year. This does not, however, exclude the possibility of correction this summer, and August, September, & October in an election year are typically weak. Lance retells his weekend rent house experience as an underscore endorsing renting over homeownership for most folks. Shocking. A look at the dichotomy of confidence: Expectations for market gains this year do now square with our feelings about the economy

2024-06-27

The Fed and economists are encouraged because CPI is down to 3.3% from a high of nearly 9% in 2022. Despite the Fed’s “significant progress” in lowering inflation, most citizens are outraged and confused by economists’ relatively rosy inflation observations. Most citizens believe inflation is still rampant. The Fed and economists are correct in that inflation is now tame. At the same time, citizens dissatisfied with high prices have solid grounds on which to base their disapproval.

Hosted by RIA Advisors Chief Investment Strategist Lance Roberts, CIO, w Portfolio Manager, Michael Lebowitz, CFA
Produced by Brent Clanton, Executive Producer
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Articles mentioned in this report:
"Why Economists And Citizens Have Different Inflation Realities"

2024-06-25

💰 Seeking the perfect investment? 🚀 Wall Street is on it! Learn about the $120 billion ETF trend in my latest video. #Investing #ETFs #WallStreet

We address the common investor’s desire for a perfect low-risk, high-reward investment. He discusses the unrealistic expectations and the growing demand for such ideal investments in today’s market and economy.
– The search for a magic pill investment.
– Expectations versus reality in market investments.
– Economic uncertainty driving demand for low-risk options.
– The illusion of high upside with minimal downside.
– Practical advice for cautious investors.

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2024-06-13

June is half-over, and the stock buy back blackout begins today, removing that source of activity from the market. Economic data points continue to weaken, but Fed Chairman Jerome Powell wants to see "more good data." There is an alternative universe of debt; the Fed wants weaker economy so they can lower rates. The S&P 500 sets another new, all-time high; Apple, Miscrosoft, & Nvidia are driving the market. There is an ever-widening performance gap between the S&P 500 and everyone else. Mrs. Roberts’ Roomba and an FOMC Meeting recap; the economy is "normalizing." Jerome Powell’s humility; interest rates are restrictive; the problem with being data-dependent. Elon Musk’s pay package; markets are still being driven by fewer and fewer stocks; buy backs’ influence on market performance; was

2024-06-12

It’s Fed Day and Inflation Day: The FOMC meeting commences, and inflation in May cooled a bit. What will the Fed’s Dot Plot show? Rate cut expectations are down to just two for this year, and likely not occuring until after the election. How will the Fed loosen QT? Markets set another all time high, marginally. The rally-restest-rally pattern continues. Apple was the big driver on Tuesday with the heralding of "Apple Intelligence." We answer viewers’ questions about owning Bonds vs.Treasuries vs ETF’s. The saga of predictions, swimming in oil, and uranium’s leap ahead of its reality. Our investing strategy now: What we’re buying and selling, and why; how we manage risk.

3:18 – Fed Day/Inflation Day; Apple Intelligence
14:50 – Outlook for Owning Bonds
30:23 – Swimming in Oil & The Saga