Top 10 New Year’s Investing Resolutions by Investor.gov
The SEC shares 10 resolutions for investors, including links to their free calculators, monthly investing quizzes, ways to research your advisor and avoiding FOMO.
When interest rates become bad news for the stock market ???? by TKer
Interest rates can create competition for stocks when bonds have higher yields, but the rates we’re seeing now are not considered high by historical standards. The real concern for markets is when rates rise sharply.
Trump tech forecast: turbulence by Axios
“‘Volatile’ is the one word that describes the tech industry’s new reality under the second Trump administration.” Deals may be more plentiful, along with what I will call garbage meme coins. AI will have fewer guardrails. But tariffs could hurt tech’s global supply chain, and tougher immigration policies will harm the tech workforce.
Hard to Handle: A Look at Hard vs. Soft Data by Charles Schwab Asset Management
Some soft data metrics have started to rebound sharply and catch back up to relatively resilient hard data, but it’s too soon to say whether the gap is definitively closing.
Book Recommendation
The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi by Wright Thompson
A shocking and revelatory account of the murder of Emmett Till that lays bare how forces from around the world converged on the Mississippi Delta in the long lead-up to the crime, and how the truth was erased for so long
Boston Corner
New England Economic Conditions Through January 14, 2025 by Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
