April 20, 2015 Weekly Market Update from Maier & Associates Financial Group

Investor fears returned with a vengeance on Friday, as markets tumbled across the globe. Domestic indexes were down 1% or more for the week, while the Global Dow fell nearly a quarter percent. The yield on the 10-year Treasury fell to 1.87%. Observers attributed Friday's stock market losses to a series of lackluster earnings reports in the United States, combined with jitters associated with a possible Greek debt default and China's issuance of new stock trading regulations. Despite the drops, stocks are still in positive territory for the year.

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April 13, 2015 Weekly Market Update from Maier & Associates Financial Group

Despite a weaker-than-expected jobs report released on Good Friday, a day when markets were closed, last week proved to be a positive one for stocks. Driven in part by a major strategic announcement released by General Electric (GE) on Friday, large caps ended the week up more than 1.5%, while a 2.23% gain propelled the Nasdaq to retake the year-to-date top spot. The dollar, which had been falling in recent weeks, rebounded after Federal Open market Committee (FOMC) meeting minutes and a strong unemployment claims report reinvigorated speculation surrounding a potential interest rate hike in the coming months.

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April 6, 2015 Weekly Market Update from Maier & Associates Financial Group

The Russell 2000 continued to be more resilient than its domestic large-cap brethren, which ended the week little changed. The small caps even managed to steal the year-to-date lead from the Nasdaq, which has the week's weakest performance. The benchmark 10-year Treasury yield fell as prices rose after a disappointing jobs report spurred hopes that it might encourage the Fed to postpone rate hikes.

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March 30, 2015 Weekly Market Update from Maier & Associates Financial Group

An uptick in equities on Friday couldn't overcome the four-day downdraft across the board that preceded it. Whether the slump was caused by weak economic data, a fresh outbreak of Middle East conflict, a discouraging report about corporate profits, or simple profit-taking after the previous week's strength, it left the S&P 500 a whisker away from flat for the year and wiped out all year-to-date gains for the Dow industrials. Military action in Yemen, a country situated at a key checkpoint for Middle Eastern oil shipments, was seen as a potential threat to supplies and fueled a bounce in the price of oil. However, anxiety about equities didn't translate into gains for the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury note, which remained relatively stable. Gold built on the upswing that began the previous week; it has now gained roughly $50 an ounce in a little less than two weeks.

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March 16, 2015 Weekly Market Update from Maier & Associates Financial Group

Bulls and bears duked it out last week, with the Dow experiencing multiple triple-digit intraday swings. In the end, the bears prevailed as the Dow and S&P 500 had their third week of losses, which sent both back into negative territory for the year. The dollar continued to gain strength, hitting $1.06 against the euro (its highest level since January 2003), while the price of oil, which has been above $50 a barrel at the beginning of the month, fell to roughly $45. Coupled with the start of quantitative easing by the European Central Bank, that raised concerns about how U.S. multinational companies' sales overseas would fare going forward. The small caps of the Russell 2000, which are seen as having less international exposure, had the week's only gains.

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March 9, 2015 Weekly Market Update from Maier & Associates Financial Group

Good news about unemployment proved bad news for the equities markets. The Dow industrials closed 279 points lower after Friday's strong jobs report as investors feared it might help hasten the end of the Fed's near-zero target interest rate. Nevertheless, the Nasdaq topped 5,000 earlier in the week for the first time since March 2000. The strengthening of the U.S. dollar in the wake of Thursday's European Central Bank meeting took a toll not only on the euro but on gold and oil; gold fell to $1,164--its lowest price of the year--while oil dipped below $50 a barrel. Meanwhile, the benchmark 10-year Treasury yield shot to its highest level of the year as prices fell.

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March 2, 2015 Weekly Market Update from Maier & Associates Financial Group

Equities markets were mildly buoyed by Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen's congressional testimony and the grudging approval of Greece's plans for qualifying for additional assistance. The S&P 500 and Russell 2000 hit new record highs during the week. However, both had backed away from those highs by week's end after U.S. economic growth was shown to be weaker than expected.

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