We have lowered our projections for U.S. gross domestic product (GDP), the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield, and operating earnings for the S&P 500 Index in 2019…

Trade fears swung around stocks last week before some tariffs were delayed August 13 to avoid impacting the holiday shopping season…

Stocks endured significant volatility last week but showed some resilience Wednesday, August 7, when the S&P 500 Index dropped as much as 2% intraday before rallying back…

Despite last week’s losses, 2019 has been a good year for stocks—the S&P 500 is up 17% year to date through August 2 and, excluding any losses Monday, still stands just 3% from its all-time closing high on July 26…

The Federal Reserve (Fed) is likely to start an easing cycle this week, which has several investment implications…

We are maintaining our year-end fair value S&P 500 target of 3,000 even though the index is very close to that level…

We expect slightly positive earnings growth in the second quarter, with substantial drag from falling technology sector earnings…

The main drivers of the strong first half were the Federal Reserve’s (Fed) U-turn on monetary policy and progress on trade…

We expect stocks to move higher over the second half of the year. Stocks already have had quite a run in 2019, buoyed by a return to fundamentals…

Stocks have benefited recently from increasing hopes of a Fed rate cut, although investors probably won’t get one this week…