Weekly Financial Update April 13, 2018
April 16, 2018
U.S. stocks edged higher last week, as earnings season kicked off with several major financial sector companies reporting. The S&P 500 Index advanced 2.0%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 427.38 points, or 1.8%.
The March meeting of the Federal Reserve showed officials shifting toward a moderately faster pace of policy tightening, attempting to match a policy to an economy that is benefiting from increased government spending and tax cuts at a time when unemployment is low and growth remains high.
Please click the link below to read more of the above and learn about how the Core Consumer Price Index (CPI) has seen the largest gain in the past year while concerns with White House trade policy caused consumer sentiment to fall.