Daily Scoop 22-4-11

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Today's Scoop:Tired

Big Picture

1. Earnings season is starting.

2. Interest rates are rising.

3. Oil prices are coming down.

The Market: 

⬇️

-1.7%

S&P 500: 4,412.53

1Mo: +6

%

| 1Yr:

+7%

| 5Yr:

+88%

Markets continued the downward slump into this week as investors stressed over the economy's uncertain future. The economy's strong, but prices are rising too quickly, so the Fed's trying to slow things down a bit.

Investors hate uncertainty, and there's a lot of that right now.

Will higher prices start affecting consumption and slow the economy before the Federal Reserve can get inflation under control? Will the Fed raise interest rates too quickly in its attempts to slow inflation and end up slowing the economy into recession?

Tune in over the next several months to watch this play out slowly!

Corporations had a solid fourth quarter. We'll start hearing

first-quarter earnings reports from America's most prominent companies this week

to get a peek into their financial health.

Oil prices have started coming down from peak

fear levels as economic activity and fuel demand slow in China due to covid lockdowns.

Company Scoops ❤🌎💰

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Disney

threatened by politicians for LGBTQ support

-

JetBlue

can't find pilots

-

Twitter

decides not to onboard Musk

-

Pinterest

polices misinformation

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Nio

hikes prices over supply strain

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🤓 Inside Scoop...

The

Federal Reserve

, aka the Central Bank, controls the flow of money. When the economy needs juice, it creates more money and

lowers interest rates

to incentivize more lending and spending. When

inflation

gets too high, that means there's too much lending and spending for the available resources. So, the Fed

raises interest rates

and starts to shut down all the supportive stimulus measures. In a regular economic cycle, inflation starts to get too high because the economy has recovered and doesn't need the extra boost. The fear now is that inflation will keep rising due to unusual global trade issues, forcing the Fed to restrict the economy before it's strong enough to handle it.

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