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5 Lessons From an Awful Year For Financial Markets

A Wealth of Common Sense

Most investors would probably like to move on and forget about 2022 when it comes to market performance. It was an all-time bad year for the markets. You learn more about yourself during a bear market than a bull market. This piece I wrote at Fortune delves into 5 lessons for investors from 2022.

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MBA: Mortgage Applications Increase in Latest Weekly Survey

Calculated Risk

percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending December 9, 2022. Mortgage rates increased slightly after a month of declines, as financial markets reacted to mixed signals regarding inflation and the Federal Reserve’s next policy moves.

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Top clicks this week on Abnormal Returns

Abnormal Returns

crossingwallstreet.com) The best books Ben read in 2022 including "Die With Zero" by Bill Perkins. awealthofcommonsense.com) A look at the best charts of 2022. topdowncharts.substack.com) Six things that don't change in financial markets including the attraction of 'shiny objects.'

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Adjusted for Risk: Zephyr Announces the 2022 PSN Top Gun Managers of the Decade

Wealth Management

It was quite the decade for financial markets and one that will go down in the history books.

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MBA: Mortgage Purchase Applications Decreased Sharply, Lowest Since 1995

Calculated Risk

percent – the highest rate since November 2022. This time of the year is typically when purchase activity ramps up, but over the past two weeks, rates have increased significantly as financial markets digest data on inflation cooling at a slower pace than expected. Given that rates are over 2.5

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Nine Must Reads for the CRE Industry Today (Jan. 12, 2023)

Wealth Management

Investors with a net worth of $30 million or greater saw real estate as an attractive investment opportunity in 2022 amid volatility in financial markets, reports Barron’s. Urban Land Institute looks at the five sustainability issues likely to face the commercial real estate industry this year.

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Nobody Knows Anything, Dot Plot Edition

The Big Picture

” Here are the June 2016 dot plots: Fast forward to September 2021, where the Fed imagined 2023 fund rates to be around 1%: Now, March 2022 dots imagined a year later we’d be about 3%: Last, the current September 2023 Dot Plot, which I guess is comforting(?)

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