Solid earnings results compared with expectations have helped keep stocks afloat in recent weeks amid debt ceiling jitters, regional bank concerns, and louder calls for recession.

The dollar’s backing is exemplified by a sound foundation, a history of credibility, and transparency that cannot be negated by its detractors. King dollar still reigns, and may for the foreseeable future.

Here we take our annual look at this historical seasonal pattern which, as you will see below, has started to lose some of its street cred recently.

In this edition of the Weekly Market Commentary, we discuss the weakness in small businesses and what that foreshadows in the markets and the economy.

The commercial real estate market continues to face challenges from structural changes in the wake of the pandemic.

In some ways this quarter’s earnings season will probably be déjà vu all over again—earnings declines and cautious guidance, reductions in estimates, but better than feared.