Aptus Musings: Q4 2024 Earnings Results
Hope that everyone has been enjoying some warmer weather this past week. It was a tough winter; the U.S. has been experiencing its coldest winter in ~15 years and amongst...
The Market in Pictures, February 21
Our team looks at a lot of research throughout the day. Here are a handful that we think are contributing to investor activity, from earnings to tariffs to market breadth...
Around the Bond Market, Feb 2025
Quantitative Tightening Ending Soon This week's press about the Fed minutes release were the same: the Fed is worried about tariffs and is in no rush to lower rates....
Avoid This Tax Mistake: Treasury Income is State-Exempt
With Treasury yields at multi-year highs, many investors are turning to Treasury-focused ETFs, money market funds, and broad bond index funds to capture attractive returns....
The Market in Pictures, February 14
Our team looks at a lot of research throughout the day. Here are a handful that we think are contributing to investor activity , from rate expectations to growth drivers to...
CPI Update: Fed on Hold
CPI rose 0.5% in January, above the 0.3% gain expected and an uptick from a 0.4% increase in December. Year-over-year, prices rose 3.0%, a tenth of a percentage point higher...
Leveraged ETFs: The Hidden Costs of Volatility Drag
Daily leveraged ETFs aim to magnify the returns of an underlying asset or index, often by 2x or -2x the daily return. While appealing for short-term trading, their mechanics...
The Market in Pictures, February 7
Our team looks at a lot of research throughout the day. Here are a handful that we think are contributing to investor activity , from rate expectations to growth drivers to...
Aptus Musings: Not So Tarif-Fying?
We're one month down, with 11 months to go and let me tell you, there was a lot to digest in January. Week 1: Rates moving off of a hard landing narrative due to a strong...
Not Relying on Help From FOMC
FOMC Update The January FOMC meeting went as expected (no rate cut). Chairman Powell offered limited forward guidance, stating that “we’re meaningfully above” the neutral...
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