The Bottom Line

● U.S. equities resumed their uptrend after last week’s decline, with major indices all posting a positive week. The NASDAQ led the pack for the week at +2.84%.
● The 10-Year yield started the week with a steep decline, but reclaimed ground and settled -1 bps below last week’s level at 1.28. The 2-Year yield was also volatile, but settled -2 bps at 0.20.
● Economic releases were on the lighter side, with most of the data releases relating to housing. A negative surprise on jobs came in on Thursday and caused markets to pause.

Muted Celebrations

With the Tokyo Olympics kicking off at the latter part of the week, the world was reminded where we have been and where we are since the start of the global pandemic. Traditionally a time of global celebration, the excitement was dampened by the absence of spectators at the games. Japanese equities had a short trading week due to the games and the Nikkei reflected the worlds’ disappointment by losing another -1.63% for the week. European equities were able to shake off some of the concerns over the spread of the delta variant and rose +1.49% for the week. US equities were able to dig themselves out of a hole after Monday and erase last week’s losses, although the negative surprise on the weekly jobs report on Thursday caused some hesitation. By Friday, the markets shook off the noise and resumed their climb with the tech heavy Nasdaq leading the way at +2.84%for the week, followed by the small cap Russell index at+2.15%. The S&P posted a respectable +1.96% for the week and is still the leader YTD at +17.46%. Markets will be closely watching the announcement and the language surrounding interest rates from the FOMC meeting next week.

Digits & Did You Knows

ARE YOU WEALTHY? — The average response from 1,000 Americans surveyed in the first half of 2021 is that it takes a net worth of $1.9 million in order to be considered “wealthy” in the United States today. (source: Schwab 2021 Modern Wealth Survey, BTN Research)
ONLY ONCE — Inflation, using the “Consumer Price Index” (CPI) as the measurement, was up +5.4% on a trailing 1-year basis as of 06/30/21. In the last 30 years, there was only 1 month when trailing 1-year inflation was greater than +5.4%. Inflation was up +5.6% for the 1-year ending 7/31/08.(source: Department of Labor, BTN Research)

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