Despite the considerable policy ground that has been covered so far in the Federal Reserve’s fight against inflation with interest rates being hiked by 4.50% and the central bank balance sheet being shrunk by over half a trillion in less than a year ...

Last week the markets gave back just a little bit of the year-to-date gains. For the week ending 2/11/23, the S&P 500 was down 1.07%, the Dow Jones was down 0.11% and the NASDAQ was down 2.37%.

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The S&P 500 last Friday ended the week up 1.6%, as sentiment improved after the Federal Reserve met on Wednesday.