{"id":4916,"date":"2023-03-05T20:36:51","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T01:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/?p=4916"},"modified":"2023-03-05T20:36:51","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T01:36:51","slug":"week-ending-3-3-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/?p=4916","title":{"rendered":"Week Ending 3\/3\/2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MARKET RECAP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stocks moved ahead for the week, in the US at +2.05% and outside the US at +2.79%. The market is still trading at a somewhat high level, given where interest rates are. The 5.3% earnings yield on the S&amp;P 500 is barely above the almost 5% that treasuries yield going out up to 2 years. This is a divergence that, over the long run, likely won&#8217;t hold.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/VTI-3-3-2023.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4920\" src=\"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/VTI-3-3-2023-300x146.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/VTI-3-3-2023-300x146.png 300w, https:\/\/envisionco.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/VTI-3-3-2023-1024x499.png 1024w, https:\/\/envisionco.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/VTI-3-3-2023-768x375.png 768w, https:\/\/envisionco.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/VTI-3-3-2023-1536x749.png 1536w, https:\/\/envisionco.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/VTI-3-3-2023-500x244.png 500w, https:\/\/envisionco.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/VTI-3-3-2023.png 1556w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The market expects rates to top out at 5.25% to 5.5%, with the next hike to be 25 basis points. But with a hotter-than-expected economy, there is now a push to go for 50 basis points.<\/p>\n<p>The economy, so far, is still advancing. The Atlanta Fed GDPNow shows Q1 GDP at 2%+, and the ISM services index stayed at 55.1, indicating an expanding economy. At the same time, though, the ISM manufacturing index is 47.7, indicating a contracting economy. Global PMI is now north of 50.<\/p>\n<p>Warren Buffet took a direct shot at President Biden when he said in his annual letter, &#8220;We you are told that all [share] repurchases are harmful to shareholders or to the country, or particularly beneficial to CEOs, you are listening to an economic illiterate or a sliver-tongued demagogue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>SCOREBOARD<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Scoreboard-03-03-2023.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4919\" src=\"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Scoreboard-03-03-2023-87x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"87\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Scoreboard-03-03-2023-87x300.png 87w, https:\/\/envisionco.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Scoreboard-03-03-2023-296x1024.png 296w, https:\/\/envisionco.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Scoreboard-03-03-2023-444x1536.png 444w, https:\/\/envisionco.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Scoreboard-03-03-2023.png 573w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 87px) 100vw, 87px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MARKET RECAP Stocks moved ahead for the week, in the US at +2.05% and outside the US at +2.79%. The market is still trading at a somewhat high level, given where interest rates are. The 5.3% earnings yield on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/?p=4916\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1893,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1893"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4916"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4921,"href":"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4916\/revisions\/4921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}