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The 10-year yield jumped to the significant 2% mark in the last few days because of the latest inflation numbers.

Economic analysts have lowered growth expectations for the first quarter of 2022.

Do you know what else happened in 1982? That was the last time we had inflation this high.

I don’t see the 2022 market repeating the 2021 market that looked great the first quarter coming out of the pandemic shutdowns of 2020.

How did a global pandemic wreak havoc on a century’s old system? Let me explain the supply chain mess in layman baseball terms.

Chairman Powell has been saying all year that inflation wasn’t going to be a problem.

We now have October’s inflation numbers, and they weren’t good. In fact, they were much worse than expected.

on November 3, the Federal Reserve announced at the end of its Open Market Committee meeting that it was going to begin hitting the brakes on the pace of the monthly amount of its bond purchases this month (quantitative easing).

In the past week, stocks went up but have been feeling inflation pressure. Inflation continues to be the big topic in the stock market in October.

Since this bull market started at the beginning of 2009, the S&P 500 index, which tracks the 500 largest companies on the stock exchange, has beat analysts’ earnings expectations 47 out of 48 quarters according to the Wall Street Journal.

The last eighteen months have been a crazy ride with the market and economy.

The 50-day moving average helps us see trends in stock to see where the stock or index is gaining strength or showing weakness by drawing a line on the chart that shows the average closing price from the past 50 trading sessions.

The first two weeks of September have been the worst of the year. There have been a few negative reports, but nothing major enough to justify investors’ fears.

This week Argus Research Company lowered their GDP forecast by 11%. Goldman Sachs lowered its forecast for the remainder of the year because of a “harder path ahead” for consumer spending.

September has historically been the S&P 500’s worst month of the year for returns and since 1980, September has been the only month to average a loss.

It’s easy to be overly confident when we see the Dow Jones or the S&P 500 indexes on the nightly news.