As investors digested news of the Federal Reserve's plan to unwind its balance sheet starting in October, both interest rates and equity markets remained unchanged for the week.
"Growth" May Be Getting Long in the Tooth
Winners and Losers
Buoyed by the best quarterly earnings growth in six years, blue chip equities are forging new highs, with investors disregarding the turmoil in Washington and discounting increasingly lofty expectations for the remainder of 2017.
Profits Over Politics
As investors, the best thing about earnings season is it filters a lot of the other noise out of the market. A month ago, a tweet, tariff headlines or even a longshot tax proposal would have moved the equity markets. But now that we are in the throes of earnings season, equity investors are focused on the most important factor in investing: earnings.