Macro Overview – June 2019

Kent Forsey, CFP® Mortgage Rates, Tariffs, Trade Policies, Treasury Bonds, Unemployment Rates

The “firehose” of information available nowadays makes it difficult to focus on what topics are really affecting the market.  Here is a good summary of this month’s most important issues. The ongoing trade dispute between the U.S. and China escalated in May as the U.S. signaled that it had not finalized a deal yet with China.  The lack of a …

Macro Overview – April 2018

Kent Forsey, CFP® Lending, Macro Overview, Mortgage Rates, National Budgets, Taxes

Although the market is always climbing a wall of worry, consider these points as we try to make sense of recent market fluctuations. Markets were rattled in March as a looming trade war between China and the U.S. enhanced market instability.  The administration announced $60 billion in tariffs for Chinese imports, with a detailed list of products which will be …