Markets are looking for a slight — very slight but critical — improvement in the inflation numbers for February that will be released this week. Fed Chairman Powell has already signaled, with surprising clarity last week, the Fed’s confidence that it will be able to cut interest rates later this year. The recent USD weakening has helped broaden market participation across other asset classes. The asset classes that are more negatively correlated (move in opposite directions) to the U.S. dollar relative to the S&P 500 are non-U.S. equities and emerging market debt/U.S. corporate bonds. Simply put, when the U.S. dollar is falling, these asset classes typically have more price appreciation upside. On the wealth planning front, we discuss the risk of reduced social security.
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