Market Trends & Outlook

Last week the Energy Information Administration (EIA) released their 2023 International Energy Outlook. It came out on Wednesday, the same day that Exxon Mobil (XOM) confirmed their acquisition of Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD), and they’re linked in more ways than simply their announcement date.

"Don't follow the headlines...follow the trendlines, follow the chart lines, and they're going to tell you everything we need to know," says Joe Tigay of Equity Armor, who provides his insights on how investors should follow the markets in the wake of recent current events.

"Don't follow the headlines...follow the trendlines, follow the chart lines, and they're going to tell you everything we need to know," says Joe Tigay of Equity Armor, who provides his insights on how investors should follow the markets in the wake of recent current events.

A stubbornly hot economy drove a large upward move in interest rates that took a bite out of the securities markets in September.

The Fed’s “soft landing” hopes are likely overly optimistic. Such was the context of the recent #BullBearReport, which discussed the long record of the Fed’s economic growth projections.

As we bid farewell to the third quarter of 2023, it’s time to reflect on the market’s performance and prepare for what lies ahead in the final stretch of the year.

The final week of September is often the most volatile in a historically unpredictable month, according to Joe Tigay of Equity Armor Investments and...

The hit TV series “That 70s Show” aired from 1998 to 2006 and focused on six teenage friends living in Wisconsin in the late 70s. The irony was that the actors playing the teenagers were not born in the late 70s and had never experienced life during that period. Many alive today cannot fathom a lifestyle devoid of the internet, cable television, mobile phones, and social media. Oh…the horrors.