
Record Highs On Bad News?
The market just hit a record high on bad economic news — and that's not a typo. Three Fed officials just voted to raise rates while investors are betting on a September cut, and this week's CPI and PPI reports could deci

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Understanding the stock market and economy probably wasn’t on your bucket list when you were a kid, when you graduated high school or even today 😂. And yet there it is, day after day, looming in the background and affecting real life events for you and your family, good and bad. Why’d it go up? When’s it going down? Wait, is “the market” actually much bigger than just 500 US stocks? It’s complicated. And they make it complicated on purpose! On The Markets gives context to complexity. A stock market and economy show in plain English. Hosted by Fermata Advisors co-founders Daren Blonski CFP® AIF®, Chris Sipes CFP ® AIF®, podcast host Dano Weir and more. The team shares the weekly economic, governmental and technical inputs that may be affecting the performance outputs in your portfolio, tax situation and more. Powered by the brands of Fermata Advisors, including Sonoma Wealth, Fermata 401k and Fermata Tax, headquartered in Sonoma, California with offices across Northern California in Santa Rosa, San Rafael, Auburn and Chico.
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The market just hit a record high on bad economic news — and that's not a typo. Three Fed officials just voted to raise rates while investors are betting on a September cut, and this week's CPI and PPI reports could deci

Why should Japan's currency have anything to do with your US tech company investment portfolio? What if...it had everything to do with the entire market? One carelessly or carefully left note from Treasury Secretary Scot

Fireworks in July typically happen on the 4th, but the market waited until the end of the month to let loose a "big finale". Significant drawdowns in AI-related verticals, stability concerns in Japanese Yen and how it ma

Inflation numbers show a significant decline, but the market couldn't have cared less this week. Spiking oil amid new mid-east turmoil lead the narrative this week, outshining inflation or easing unemployment. What could

A chip pullback? A "double bottom" fail? Are they just flipping a coin in the Strait of Hormouz? Is the market starting to show signs of AI fatigue? Or is this all just dog days of summer low trade volume? Let's find out

SpaceX debuted at $150, surged to $232 in four days on a wave of AI excitement, then lost 34% of its value in a single week. It was the most hyped, most AI-adjacent IPO of 2026 — and when it turned, the Nasdaq, the chip

The Federal Reserve just held interest rates steady — but for the first time in years, the bigger story isn't the number, it's the man behind the decision. Kevin Warsh walked into his first FOMC meeting, cut the Fed's st

This week oil prices whipsawed on Iran headlines while a hot inflation print kept the Fed boxed in, and together they drove the narrative in the market. Is the war actually over...again? How would oil stability affect yo

The Fed may soon scrap a tool called the dot plot...and most people have never even heard of it. But it has quietly shaped every mortgage rate, bond yield, and retirement projection in the last 14 years. Rumors indicate

In the month of May 2026, The Dow hit a record high on the exact same day consumer sentiment hit an all-time low — and that disconnect is telling us something important. Wall Street is celebrating eight straight winning

SpaceX just filed the largest IPO in history with a $1.7 trillion price tag, but the S-1 reveals a much murkier story. Starlink is the only division turning a profit — the rocket business loses money, the AI business los

CPI inflation hit 3.8%, the highest since 2023. New Fed Chair Kevin Warsh was installed to deliver a fed rate cut in 2026, but the numbers say he can't. While the S&P 500 hits record highs on surging AI stocks, the rest

We're just over a year past the proclamation that tariffs would fix all of America’s economic woes. Did it really work? Did the market care one way or the other? Let’s find out On The Market. This week Sonoma Wealth Mana

Changing of the guard is officially underway at the Fed, although Jerome Powell’s not going far. How might new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh approach interest rates? Will you finally be able to refinance? And how did the market

Search analytics platforms are seeing a bump this week in the term “stagflation”, a stagnant economy that is also experiencing inflation. Does the narrative hold true in the numbers? Or is it just another storyline blowi

The S&P pushed to new highs this week — was it a foundational move or a headline-driven band-aid? This week on On The Markets, Daren breaks down whether this rally is the real deal or just another trap waiting to spring.

While market movements can often be “priced in” weeks or months in advance, this week’s news cycle clearly had impacts on asset performance. With so many reasons for a downturn, the market still found it’s footing. Let’s

The Great American Pastime...the market (ha!). Oil, inflation and a tech selloff might be three pitches the market just can’t shake off. What adjustments might be made with mid-term elections on deck? Let’s find out, On

There’s this feeling that this has happened before. There’s this feeling that this has happened before. As we approach a year since April 2025’s “Libertation Day” Tariff event, the market is feeling eerily similar, albei

There’s a growing trend and interest among young people in nostalgia from the 1990’s. Physical compact disc (CD) sales have actually grown in recent years, Barnes and Noble are actually adding physical stores this year,
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