Market Commentary
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Weekly Market Commentary
Access a timely summary of market happenings and economic indicators, plus get a glimpse of what's to come in our weekly market commentary.
Topics include:
- Stock market performance
- Developments in Washington
- News from abroad
- Employment
- Housing
- Gross domestic product
- Consumer spending
Quarterly Market Commentary
Find a timely summary and insightful commentary on economic and financial market trends in our quarterly market commentary. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Company Chief Investment Strategist Brent Schutte, CFA®, manages to be both enlightening and entertaining in his recaps of economic conditions each quarter. His commentary often discusses:
- What’s happening in domestic markets
- Trends in developed markets
- Developments in emerging markets
- A historical perspective of current global conditions
- A look ahead at short- and long-term trends
January 22, 2019
Stocks continued their rebound from the year-end swoon, up for the fourth week in a row on the way to posting the best start to a year since 1987. Read More
January 14, 2019
01/14/19 - The shutdown continues, but so does the stock market’s roll, with the Dow turning in its best three-week stretch since after the election of 2016. Read More
January 7, 2019
01/07/19 - Stocks open the year with another wild week, as the jobs report and calming words from the Fed’s Jerome Powell trigger a Friday stock-market surge to more than offset Thursday’s plunge. Read More
December 31, 2018
12/31/18 - A week of record swings ends with the major indexes up, but they look to be headed for their worst year performance since 2008. Read More
December 17, 2018
12/17/18 - There was little joy on Wall Street last week as a long list of year-end concerns sent all three major indexes into correction territory. Read More
December 10, 2018
12/10/18 - A strong start for the stock market turns south after doubts emerge about the trade truce and the U.S. asks Canada to detain a leading Chinese executive. Read More
Quarterly Commentary Fourth Quarter 2018
The Year When Nothing Worked Read More
Quarterly Commentary Third Quarter 2018
Goldilocks and the Three Fears Read More
Quarterly Commentary Second Quarter 2018
Unique But Not Different Read More
Quarterly Commentary First Quarter 2018
Singles and Doubles, Not Home Runs Read More
Quarterly Commentary Fourth Quarter 2017
This Is (Not Yet) the Summer of 1969 Read More
Quarterly Commentary Third Quarter 2017
I’m All Right … Don’t Nobody Worry About Me Read More
Quarterly Commentary Second Quarter 2017
"First-Half Love ..." Read More