Transcript:
Tom Vaughan:
Hello, everybody, welcome to Tuesday, the S&P 500 was up point one 6%. Today, I was really big accomplishment, it was down a lot today over one and a half percent, really in the morning and what have you and kind of rallied up throughout the rest of the day, and seems to be the main catalyst was the fact that maybe inflation comes in a little bit lower than what’s expected. And we’ve seen some evidence of that, with the price of oil, briefly getting below $100 A barrel today ended up just barely above that. And so, you know, if you look at gas prices and oil prices, and some of these inflationary pressures starting to come down, at least temporarily, that might make the inflation numbers have come out, be more reasonable. And of course, the Federal Reserve then might be able to respond with a half a point increase instead of a three quarter point increase in those types of things. So mostly led today by the technology stocks, they’re more interest rate sensitive.
So when you see you know, the 10 year Treasury falling like it did today, and those types of things, you’ll often see, especially the Large Cap growth, you know, the Apples of the world, doing quite well in this environment. But we’re in this kind of churning seas right now, where, you know, we’re some reports come out, some things happen, people look at that as, hey, things are going to slow down faster, and they thought the Fed can be more reasonable. And then other things come out where it’s just the opposite, or situations that are happening in Europe, Ukraine, and those types of things. So lots of different, you know, variations going on right now, as far as that goes. But very interesting. We’ll see how this plays out. This is a holiday shortened week, we could have some false movement one way or another. Just because you know, a lot of people might not be participating, especially some of the institutional people will have to wait and see how this plays out this week, but look forward to seeing what’s going to happen tomorrow. Thank you very much.