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What Is A Bond? What Are The Different Types Of Bonds? How Do You Buy Bonds? In this episode of the Market Maker Podcast, Jessie and Jess delve into the world of bonds, discussing their significance in the financial market, the mechanics of how they work, and the various types of bonds available for investment. Explore the relationship between interest rates and bond prices, the importance of credit ratings, and the risks associated with bond investments. We also cover municipal bonds and how to invest in bonds through direct purchases or funds. This is an educational guide to help you understand bonds and their role in investment portfolios (not advice, duh 😉). Takeaways Bonds are a type of fixed income product issued by governments and corporations. When you buy a bond, you're lending money to the issuer in exchange for interest payments. Bonds are less volatile than stocks, providing a smoother investment experience. Interest rate risk affects bond prices; when rates rise, bond prices typically fall. Credit ratings are crucial for assessing the risk of default on bonds. Municipal bonds often offer tax benefits, making them attractive for investors. Different types of bonds include corporate, government, and municipal bonds, each with unique characteristics. Investors can purchase bonds directly or through mutual funds and ETFs. Understanding the yield curve is essential for bond investors. Researching a bond's creditworthiness is vital before investing. 🐶 Special Guest Appearance by Darling Lady Darla 🐶 Still Have More Questions or a Comment?  🙋🏾‍♀️🙋🏻🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏽‍♂️🙋Holla @ us on: ⁠Market MakeHer ⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠ Get Your Free eBook: The Stock Market Explained Subscribe to Our Newsletter Email jessica@marketmakeherpodcast.com  Instagram⁠ ⁠⁠@marketmakeherpodcast⁠⁠⁠ TikTok⁠ ⁠⁠@marketmakeher⁠⁠⁠ X/Twitter⁠ ⁠⁠@MarketMakeHer⁠⁠⁠ Join the Money Coven⁠ ⁠⁠FB Community⁠⁠⁠ 👀 Watch us in action on our⁠ ⁠⁠YouTube Channel⁠⁠⁠ 👀 ✨ Follow Jess Inskip on ⁠TikTok⁠ and ⁠Instagram⁠ ✨ ✨ Follow Jessie DeNuit on ⁠TikTok⁠ and ⁠Instagram⁠ ✨     About Us 🌚🌞 Market MakeHer is an investing education podcast taught by a 15-year finance expert to her friend who is a beginner investor. Our mission is to demystify the stock market and make financial literacy accessible to all self-directed investors! We believe that investing is for everyone and that's why we break down complex investing topics (from "Her" perspective), show you free tools/resources on our podcast, and offer a ton of free educational content on our ⁠website⁠!  Important Disclosures: Market MakeHer podcast is unsponsored at the time of recording.  Tools and resources mentioned are for informational and educational purposes only. Remember, investing involves risk, and there's always a potential for losses when investing in securities. Market MakeHer LLC provides educational content and resources, but we are not registered financial advisors and do not provide personalized investment advice. Consult with a licensed financial advisor before making any investment decisions.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/market-makeher/support

We are revisiting the business cycle and how it relates to the menstrual cycle, much like we did in ⁠Episode 13⁠ on Recessions, but we compare the phases in each cycle, side-by-side this time and break it down further.   What Is The Business Cycle? The Business Cycle is Periods of economic expansion and contraction based on the 3-Ds we discussed last time: depth (how bad is it?), diffusion (how widespread?), and duration (how long?) of a broad range of economic indicators.  The periods of expansion and contraction begin and end with what is called “turning points” as defined by the ⁠NBER⁠ (National Bureau of Economic Research). The turning points become peaks and troughs. Peaks are when the economy is slowing down. Trough is when it picks back up. Why Does It Matter? Monitoring economic data, such as GDP and unemployment, is crucial for assessing the health of the economy and making informed investment decisions. The stock market is not the economy, but it is closely related to the business cycle and the health of the consumer. Understanding the business cycle can help investors anticipate market trends and adjust their investment strategies accordingly. Hard Landing vs Soft Landing vs No Landing Soft landing is a slowdown in economic growth with a controlled reduction in inflation (think of a pilot making a slow controlled descent under the cloud cover to safely land a plane) and it’s usually followed by a period of growth. Hard landing occurs when the economy contracts sharply due to the central bank's efforts to control inflation (raising interest rates too high for too long). No-landing occurs when the economy continues to grow despite a series of contractions in monetary policies.    "The business cycle, it's like the menstrual cycle, more than just a period."     In this analogy: The Uterus is the Economy The Business Cycle is the Menstrual Cycle  The Stock Market is NOT the economy, it's a bunch of companies. So in this example, it could be companies selling pads, tampons, birth control, etc. [Disclosure: we’re not medical doctors or scientists, so just go with our analogy for funsies.]      The Business Cycle Compared to the Menstrual Cycle The business cycle is economic phases of expansion and contraction, similar to the Follicular and Luteal phases of the menstrual cycle, with peak and trough turning points, similar to Ovulation and Menstruation. We also discuss the importance of monitoring economic data, such as GDP and unemployment, to assess the health of the economy and make informed investment decisions. New data will be coming out the day this episode is released. ⁠⁠Subscribe to Our Newsletter⁠ ⁠ to stay informed! Related Links: ⁠Ep 13. Are We In A Recession?⁠ ⁠FRED - St. Louis Fed Dashboard⁠ ⁠NBER - National Bureau of Economic Research - Business Cycle Dating chart⁠ Still Have More Questions or a Comment?  🙋🏾‍♀️🙋🏻🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏽‍♂️🙋Holla @ us on: ⁠⁠Market MakeHer ⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠Get Your Free eBook: The Stock Market Explained⁠ Email ⁠jessica@marketmakeherpodcast.com⁠  Instagram⁠⁠ ⁠⁠@marketmakeherpodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠ TikTok⁠⁠ ⁠⁠@marketmakeher⁠⁠⁠⁠ X/Twitter⁠⁠ ⁠⁠@MarketMakeHer⁠⁠⁠⁠ 👀 Watch us in action on our⁠⁠ ⁠⁠YouTube Channel⁠⁠⁠⁠ 👀 ✨ Follow Jess Inskip on⁠ ⁠TikTok⁠⁠ and⁠ ⁠Instagram⁠⁠ ✨ ✨ Follow Jessie DeNuit on⁠ ⁠TikTok⁠⁠ and⁠ ⁠Instagram⁠⁠ ✨      About Us 🌚🌞 Market MakeHer is an investing education podcast taught by a 15-year finance expert to her friend who is a beginner investor. Our mission is to demystify the stock market and make financial literacy accessible to all self-directed investors! Important Disclosures: Remember, investing involves risk, and there's always a potential for losses when investing in securities. Market MakeHer LLC provides educational content and resources, but we are not registered financial advisors and do not provide personalized investment advice. Consult with a licensed financial advisor before making any investment decisions. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/market-makeher/support

Stock Market Update (SMU) Let's discuss and demystify the recent volatility in the stock market, NVDA earnings, Jackson Hole highlights including rate cuts, and the dreaded "R" word (recession). 🔮 "If the Mag 7 is coming down, and the other 493 are participating, that is a recipe for sideways action." ~Jess Inskip Who Are The Magnificent 7? ⁠Alphabet⁠ (GOOGL; GOOG), ⁠Amazon⁠ (AMZN), ⁠Apple⁠ (AAPL), ⁠Meta Platforms⁠ (META), ⁠Microsoft⁠ (MSFT), ⁠NVIDIA⁠ (NVDA), and ⁠Tesla⁠ (TSLA) NVDA is the Taylor Swift of the Stock Market 🤡 Nvidia surpassed earnings, but saw its stock price decline 6.5% today. There's a supply issue, not a demand issue here. And just like there was a let-down for Swifties when Taylor didn't announce Reputation TV, just like Nvidia didn't meet expectations of the market and there was a let-down. But we're still betting on Taylor Swift, so take that correlation how you will (not advice). 😉 The Broadening: Group Participation in the Class Project Earnings growth is now happening in the other 493 stocks of the S&P 500, indicating a broadening of the market. Check out our episode: What Is Market Breadth (⁠Ep. 45⁠). Fed (Papa) Powell Finally Gonna Cut Rates 🙌 The recent Jackson Hole meeting indicated that a rate cut is likely, with Fed Chair Jerome Powell focusing on the labor market and the need to avoid further pain. We would be shocked if there isn't a rate cut in September (0.50% is what's being anticipated). And remember, this de-inverts the yield curve and that means your HYSA interest will go down along with bonds, treasurys, CDs, etc. Recession 🤫 Recessions are determined in hindsight by the ⁠NBER,⁠ based on factors such as depth, diffusion, and duration. We're going to revisit this topic in the next episode along with the business cycle as compared to the menstrual cycle. 😉 Help Us Help You ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Leave us a star rating and/or review. It helps the algorithm gods and goddesses to have us in their favor. 😉 Still Have More Questions or a Comment?  🙋🏾‍♀️🙋🏻🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏽‍♂️🙋Holla @ us on: ⁠⁠Market MakeHer ⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠Get Your Free eBook: The Stock Market Explained⁠ ⁠Subscribe to Our Newsletter⁠ Email ⁠jessica@marketmakeherpodcast.com⁠  Instagram⁠⁠ ⁠⁠@marketmakeherpodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠ TikTok⁠⁠ ⁠⁠@marketmakeher⁠⁠⁠⁠ X/Twitter⁠⁠ ⁠⁠@MarketMakeHer⁠⁠⁠⁠ Join the Money Coven⁠⁠ ⁠⁠FB Community⁠⁠⁠⁠ 👀 Watch us in action on our⁠⁠ ⁠⁠YouTube Channel⁠⁠⁠⁠ 👀 ✨ Follow Jess Inskip on⁠ ⁠TikTok⁠⁠ and⁠ ⁠Instagram⁠⁠ ✨ ✨ Follow Jessie DeNuit on⁠ ⁠TikTok⁠⁠ and⁠ ⁠Instagram⁠⁠ ✨     About Us 🌚🌞 Market MakeHer is an investing education podcast taught by a 15-year finance expert to her friend who is a beginner investor. Our mission is to demystify the stock market and make financial literacy accessible to all self-directed investors! We believe that investing is for everyone and that's why we break down complex investing topics (from "Her" perspective), show you free tools/resources on our podcast, and offer a ton of free educational content on our ⁠website⁠!  Important Disclosures: Market MakeHer podcast is unsponsored at the time of recording.  Tools and resources mentioned are for informational and educational purposes only. Remember, investing involves risk, and there's always a potential for losses when investing in securities. Market MakeHer LLC provides educational content and resources, but we are not registered financial advisors and do not provide personalized investment advice. Consult with a licensed financial advisor before making any investment decisions.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/market-makeher/support

Continuing our "Better with my Finance-Sis" Mini-Series, in part 2 we talk all about Funds! But not just the different types of investment funds, also the difference between Passive and Active Funds. Passive Funds vs Active Funds What is a passive fund? Passive funds usually have lower expense ratios, with a more simplified investment strategy and less involvement of fund managers (or they can also be managed by computers).  They do still follow a benchmark and aim to deliver returns with that benchmark, and are still subject to 2 important items we need to cover called: expense ratio and tracking error.  Tracking Error Defined:  Tracking error is a measure of how closely a portfolio follows the index to which it is benchmarked. Expense Ratio Defined: The expense ratio is how much of a fund's assets are used towards administrative and other operating expenses. Because an expense ratio reduces a fund's assets, it reduces the returns investors receive. What is an active fund? Active funds typically feature higher expense ratios, attributed to the fund manager's in-depth research, analysis, and management efforts. Funds We Discuss: Money Market Funds Mutual Funds Target Date Funds ETFs - Exchange Traded Funds Fixed Income Funds ✨ Follow Jacey Saige on ⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠ ✨ ✨ Follow Jess Inskip on TikTok and Instagram ✨ ✨ Follow Jessie DeNuit on TikTok and Instagram ✨ Still Have More Questions or a Comment?  🙋🏾‍♀️🙋🏻🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏽‍♂️🙋Holla @ us on: ⁠Market MakeHer ⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠ Get Your Free eBook: The Stock Market Explained Subscribe to Our Newsletter Email jessica@marketmakeherpodcast.com  Instagram⁠ ⁠⁠@marketmakeherpodcast⁠⁠⁠ TikTok⁠ ⁠⁠@marketmakeher⁠⁠⁠ X/Twitter⁠ ⁠⁠@MarketMakeHer⁠⁠⁠ Join the Money Coven⁠ ⁠⁠FB Community⁠⁠⁠ 👀 Watch us in action on our⁠ ⁠⁠YouTube Channel⁠⁠⁠ 👀  About Us 🌚🌞 Market MakeHer is an investing education podcast taught by a 15-year finance expert to her friend who is a beginner investor. Our mission is to demystify the stock market and make financial literacy accessible to all self-directed investors! We believe that investing is for everyone and that's why we break down complex investing topics (from "Her" perspective), show you free tools/resources on our podcast, and offer a ton of free educational content on our ⁠website⁠!  Important Disclosures: Market MakeHer podcast is unsponsored at the time of recording.  Tools and resources mentioned are for informational and educational purposes only. Remember, investing involves risk, and there's always a potential for losses when investing in securities. Market MakeHer LLC provides educational content and resources, but we are not registered financial advisors and do not provide personalized investment advice. Consult with a licensed financial advisor before making any investment decisions. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/market-makeher/support

🔮 Introducing a new mini-series with our Gen Z "finance-sis" Jacey Saige. It's Jessie DeNuit's turn to teach how the stock market works while Jessica Inskip makes sure she's not leading Jacey astray. In part 1, we talk about why we invest and try to simplify how the stock market works, as best as possible without too many tangents. 🙃 ✨ Follow Jacey on ⁠TikTok⁠ and ⁠Instagram⁠ ✨ Still Have More Questions or a Comment?  🙋🏾‍♀️🙋🏻🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏽‍♂️🙋Holla @ us on: ⁠Market MakeHer ⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠ Get Your Free eBook: The Stock Market Explained Subscribe to Our Newsletter Email jessica@marketmakeherpodcast.com  Instagram⁠ ⁠⁠@marketmakeherpodcast⁠⁠⁠ TikTok⁠ ⁠⁠@marketmakeher⁠⁠⁠ X/Twitter⁠ ⁠⁠@MarketMakeHer⁠⁠⁠ Join the Money Coven⁠ ⁠⁠FB Community⁠⁠⁠ 👀 Watch us in action on our⁠ ⁠⁠YouTube Channel⁠⁠⁠ 👀   About Us 🌚🌞 Market MakeHer is an investing education podcast taught by a 15-year finance expert to her friend who is a beginner investor. Our mission is to demystify the stock market and make financial literacy accessible to all self-directed investors! We believe that investing is for everyone and that's why we break down complex investing topics (from "Her" perspective), show you free tools/resources on our podcast, and offer a ton of free educational content on our ⁠website⁠!  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/market-makeher/support

The stock market has been having quite the week since our last episode on the Fed’s decision to NOT do a rate cut and the resulting effects of the not-so-great unemployment numbers that came out last Friday. Recipe for disaster? Is the stock market crashing? Why was there a sell-off and what is a market sell-off? And is this a good time for us self-directed investors to invest more, like, is the stock market on sale? What were the sell-off ingredients?  The Carry Trade (Yen Got Stronger) The Sahm Rule (Recession Indicators) Recession FEAR (Emotional Investors) Sell-Off Decline: Pull-Back, Correction, Bear Market? We all know that the stock market recently tanked and there was a huge sell-off. Was this a pull back or a correction, are we in a bear market.  The difference is a decline of: Pull back = 5-9%  Correction = 10 -19% (Stock Market Is Currently Here) Bear market = >20% ✨The recent turbulence was the most severe since the 34% decline that occurred in Q1 2020. ✨ Market corrections happen almost every year. Since the early 1980s, there's been a greater than 5% drawdown in the S&P 500 Index in every year but two (1995 and 2017). ✨ The stock market has historically recovered quickly from corrections. The average time to recovery from a 5%-10% downturn is three months. The average time to recovery from a 10%-20% correction is eight months. ✨80% of corrections since 1974 have not led to a bear market. ✨ There's a 73% probability of a double rate cute (.50%) How do we know we are in a recession?  Great Analogy: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTNgX6jUW/ Related Episodes: Ep. 46) Fed Update: What is Event Risk? Could it Trigger a Sell-Off? Ep. 45) What is Market Breadth & Concentration Risk? Why Should YOU Care? Ep 18): Understand the Yield Curve, Treasury Bonds, and Stock Market Impacts Ep. 15)  Are we in a recession? What and who defines a recession? Ep. 14) What’s going on with Inflation? Still Have More Questions or a Comment?  🙋🏾‍♀️🙋🏻🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏽‍♂️🙋Holla @ us on: ⁠Market MakeHer ⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠ Get Your Free eBook: The Stock Market Explained All Our Links Email Us jessica@marketmakeherpodcast.com  Instagram⁠ ⁠⁠@marketmakeherpodcast⁠⁠⁠ TikTok⁠ ⁠⁠@marketmakeher⁠⁠⁠ X/Twitter⁠ ⁠⁠@MarketMakeHer⁠⁠⁠ Join the Money Coven⁠ ⁠⁠FB Community⁠⁠⁠ 👀 Watch us in action on our⁠ ⁠⁠YouTube Channel⁠⁠⁠ 👀  About Us 🌚🌞 Market MakeHer is an investing education podcast taught by a 15-year finance expert to her friend who is a beginner investor. Our mission is to demystify the stock market and make financial literacy accessible to all self-directed investors! We believe that investing is for everyone and that's why we break down complex investing topics (from "Her" perspective), show you free tools/resources on our podcast, and offer a ton of free educational content on our ⁠website⁠!  Important Disclosures: Market MakeHer podcast is unsponsored at the time of recording.  Tools and resources mentioned are for informational and educational purposes only. Remember, investing involves risk, and there's always a potential for losses when investing in securities. Market MakeHer LLC provides educational content and resources, but we are not registered financial advisors and do not provide personalized investment advice. Consult with a licensed financial advisor before making any investment decisions.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/market-makeher/support

We recorded this on 08/01/2024, knowing that unemployment numbers will not drop until this podcast airs on 08/02/2024, and that might also change so keep that in mind. **Employment Report Update from Jess** Fed's View on Labor Market: Fed Chair Jerome Powell stated that the changes in the labor market are "broadly consistent with a normalization process." However, policymakers are closely watching for signs of deeper issues. Unemployment Report Highlights: Unemployment Rate: Jumped to 4.3% in July, the highest in nearly three years. Hiring Slowdown: Significant reduction in hiring activities. Concerns: Increased fears of a weakening labor market and potential recession. Trend: This is the fourth consecutive monthly increase in unemployment, rising from a five-decade low of 3.4% in April 2023. Cause: The slowdown is driven by weak hiring rather than layoffs. Following the release of the employment data: U.S. Treasury yields dropped, meaning bond prices rose and we are in a sell off. Fed Meeting Notes aka The Powell-Point Fed Chairman Jerome Powell announced on the latest FOMC press conference that there will NOT be any rate cuts. We're shocked, really. Let's go through the data! It's no secret that most of us Americans are feeling the impact of higher rates to borrow money and inflation. But finally! It's not just us smaller consumers feeling the heat, larger companies are as they reported revenue declines. And if the big companies feel it, they will have to make some changes. Price Stability + Max Employment & Event Risk Something feels broken. The Fed has a toolkit to use when something is broken. Which means: rate cuts! What does it mean for you? We might see some sell-off in certain sectors. But that is normal rotation. Remember, this is not financial advice, but we have some episodes on What Is Inflation, CD Laddering, Bond ETFs, Are We In a Recession, etc., for you to understand what happens when the Yield Curve is de-inverted and what happens when rates inevitably get cut. Are you going to move your HYSA money into a Treasury, CD Ladder, or Bond Fund? Investing Rollercoaster DON'T be an emotional investor. You are buckled in for the long ride. The full rollercoaster. Time in the market is the most important and we've seen that even though the market goes up and down, the S&P 500 has continued to go up over the history of time. Also, when rates get cut, it usually trickles down to us with more competitive loan prices (auto loan, home loans, etc.) Still Have More Questions or a Comment?  🙋🏾‍♀️🙋🏻🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏽‍♂️🙋Holla @ us on: ⁠Market MakeHer ⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠ Get Your Free eBook: The Stock Market Explained Subscribe to Our Newsletter Email jessica@marketmakeherpodcast.com  Instagram⁠ ⁠⁠@marketmakeherpodcast⁠⁠⁠ TikTok⁠ ⁠⁠@marketmakeher⁠⁠⁠ X/Twitter⁠ ⁠⁠@MarketMakeHer⁠⁠⁠ Join the Money Coven⁠ ⁠⁠FB Community⁠⁠⁠ 👀 Watch us in action on our⁠ ⁠⁠YouTube Channel⁠⁠⁠ 👀  About Us 🌚🌞 Market MakeHer is an investing education podcast taught by a 15-year finance expert to her friend who is a beginner investor. Our mission is to demystify the stock market and make financial literacy accessible to all self-directed investors! We believe that investing is for everyone and that's why we break down complex investing topics (from "Her" perspective), show you free tools/resources on our podcast, and offer a ton of free educational content on our ⁠website⁠!  Important Disclosures: Market MakeHer podcast is unsponsored at the time of recording.  Tools and resources mentioned are for informational and educational purposes only. Remember, investing involves risk, and there's always a potential for losses when investing in securities. Market MakeHer LLC provides educational content and resources, but we are not registered financial advisors and do not provide personalized investment advice. Consult with a licensed financial advisor before making any investment decisions. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/market-makeher/support

Inflation is at an all-time high and so is the stock market. This is a tale of two markets. How is the S&P 500 making record highs when so many Americans are living paycheck to paycheck? We're going to break it all down. What's happening in the stock market, what the S&P 500 actually is, what market breadth and concentration risk means and why it all matters to you! We also discuss small-cap, mid-cap, large-cap, and even mega-cap companies in your portfolio, briefly, because the small-cap companies are starting to come up. This one is a little intermediate, but all very valuable info when you are a self-directed investor learning how to manage your portfolios to reach your goals. 💰💰💰 (Go to the 20-minute mark for a great analogy about this stuff if you get lost leading up to that point 😉🔮) Free eBook: The Stock Market Explained Today's Hosts Today's episode was hosted by our resident finance expert with 15 years of experience, Jessica Inskip (TikTok and Instagram) and our newest Market MakeHer finance-sis, Jacey Saige, a Gen Z investor here to learn everything she can about investing so she can spread financial literacy to her audience on TikTok and Instagram! Still Have More Questions or a Comment?  🙋🏾‍♀️🙋🏻🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏽‍♂️🙋Holla @ us on: ⁠Market MakeHer ⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠ Get Your Free eBook: The Stock Market Explained Subscribe to Our Newsletter Email jessica@marketmakeherpodcast.com  Instagram⁠ ⁠⁠@marketmakeherpodcast⁠⁠⁠ TikTok⁠ ⁠⁠@marketmakeher⁠⁠⁠ X/Twitter⁠ ⁠⁠@MarketMakeHer⁠⁠⁠ Join the Money Coven⁠ ⁠⁠FB Community⁠⁠⁠ 👀 Watch us in action on our⁠ ⁠⁠YouTube Channel⁠⁠⁠ 👀  About Us 🌚🌞 Market MakeHer is an investing education podcast taught by a 15-year finance expert to her friend who is a beginner investor. Our mission is to demystify the stock market and make financial literacy accessible to all self-directed investors! We believe that investing is for everyone and that's why we break down complex investing topics (from "Her" perspective), show you free tools/resources on our podcast, and offer a ton of free educational content on our ⁠website⁠!  Important Disclosures: Market MakeHer podcast is unsponsored at the time of recording.  Tools and resources mentioned are for informational and educational purposes only. Remember, investing involves risk, and there's always a potential for losses when investing in securities. Market MakeHer LLC provides educational content and resources, but we are not registered financial advisors and do not provide personalized investment advice. Consult with a licensed financial advisor before making any investment decisions. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/market-makeher/support

Let's refresh and re-assess our financial planning goals for our future selves. You've budgeted, you've saved, you've looked at what you've got going on in your spending and bills and what you have left over - what do you do with that extra money? (Invest it, of course 👻) *this is educational info, not advice - personal finance is personal, duh, and we don't know you're unique situation* We're replaying our budgeting, savings, and investing episode because it's that time of year to assess your finances again and we're looking at our own finances again, so we thought we'd remind y'all to do the same! Get Our Free e-Book on The Stock Market Explained! Still Have More Questions or a Comment?  🙋🏾‍♀️🙋🏻🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏽‍♂️🙋Holla @ us on: ⁠Market MakeHer ⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to Our Newsletter Email jessica@marketmakeherpodcast.com  Instagram⁠ ⁠⁠@marketmakeherpodcast⁠⁠⁠ TikTok⁠ ⁠⁠@marketmakeher⁠⁠⁠ X/Twitter⁠ ⁠⁠@MarketMakeHer⁠⁠⁠ Join the Money Coven⁠ ⁠⁠FB Community⁠⁠⁠ 👀 Watch us in action on our⁠ ⁠⁠YouTube Channel⁠⁠⁠ 👀  About Us 🌚🌞 Market MakeHer is an investing education podcast taught by a 15-year finance expert to her friend who is a beginner investor. Our mission is to demystify the stock market and make financial literacy accessible to all self-directed investors! We believe that investing is for everyone and that's why we break down complex investing topics (from "Her" perspective), show you free tools/resources on our podcast, and offer a ton of free educational content on our ⁠website⁠!  Important Disclosures: Market MakeHer podcast is unsponsored at the time of recording.  Tools and resources mentioned are for informational and educational purposes only. Remember, investing involves risk, and there's always a potential for losses when investing in securities. Market MakeHer LLC provides educational content and resources, but we are not registered financial advisors and do not provide personalized investment advice. Consult with a licensed financial advisor before making any investment decisions. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/market-makeher/support

How Does The Stock Market Perform During an Election Year? We are not getting political in this episode -- however, we are on a fact finding mission to understand if the stock market is. Let your fin-mom and fin-auntie break it down for you. 😉🔮 Does the U.S. Presidential election affect the stock market? Does the political party of the elected leader make a difference? Let's discuss, shallllll we? We're going to look at historical data going back to 1900 under each party and even drill down to the sectors. Seasonality Happens Every Year, But Past Performance Is Not Indicative of Future Results 👻 There are 4 years in a U.S. Presidential cycle, the 4th year is positive for the stock market historically (S&P 500). Since 1928, the 4th year of an election cycle is up 73% of the time with a median return 9.5% - no matter who the political party is.  Does the political party in charge matter? Looking at Democrat vs Republican, we go back to the 1900s when the DJIA (Dow Jones Industrial Average) was created and see a very minimal difference whether Dem or Rep is in office. Clearly there’s no dispersion because the stock market relies on growth, but the outlier might be those instances when the political party of the president runs both the house and senate, the data changes a little, but overall, the outcome of the Presidential election does not really affect the stock market. The median annualized return every election year is 7.7% when a Democrat wins and 7.9% when a Republican wins, historically. Such a very small difference - make whatever conclusions from that you'd like. 😘 The Takeaway Elections don’t really impact the stock market. There’s natural seasonality around the time of year Presidential elections take place, but the election itself and the outcome don’t make much of a difference. Time in the market is still your friend!! Stay consistent with how you invest and don’t be an emotional investor. Look at the overall stock market performance over a large span of time and you’ll see that there are always ups and downs, but when you stay invested for a long time your return inevitably goes up. Check out this article Jess wrote for UK Money Week: https://moneyweek.com/investments/stock-markets/us-stock-markets/trump-win-impact-on-us-markets Thanks for listening and becoming fin-fluent. 🌚🌞 Still Have More Questions or a Comment?  🙋🏾‍♀️🙋🏻🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏽‍♂️🙋Holla @ us on: ⁠Market MakeHer ⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to Our Newsletter Email jessica@marketmakeherpodcast.com  Instagram⁠ ⁠⁠@marketmakeherpodcast⁠⁠⁠ TikTok⁠ ⁠⁠@marketmakeher⁠⁠⁠ X/Twitter⁠ ⁠⁠@MarketMakeHer⁠⁠⁠ Join the Money Coven⁠ ⁠⁠FB Community⁠⁠⁠ 👀 Watch us in action on our⁠ ⁠⁠YouTube Channel⁠⁠⁠ 👀  About Us 🌚🌞 Market MakeHer is an investing education podcast taught by a 15-year finance expert to her friend who is a beginner investor. Our mission is to demystify the stock market and make financial literacy accessible to all self-directed investors! We believe that investing is for everyone and that's why we break down complex investing topics (from "Her" perspective), show you free tools/resources on our podcast, and offer a ton of free educational content on our ⁠website⁠!  Important Disclosures: Market MakeHer podcast is unsponsored at the time of recording.  Tools and resources mentioned are for informational and educational purposes only. Remember, investing involves risk, and there's always a potential for losses when investing in securities. Market MakeHer LLC provides educational content and resources, but we are not registered financial advisors and do not provide personalized investment advice. Consult with a licensed financial advisor before making any investment decisions. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/market-makeher/support

In this episode we re-visit our AI Portfolio and Investment Thesis that we discussed back in Episode 21, but with a new emerging headwind. According to our very own Jess Inskip, "the real ‘P/E Risk’ isn't overhyped price to earnings. The risk is price to energy." (Get it? That's a P/E Ratio joke 👻) AI Investing Most of us are invested in AI, whether we know it or not, because the S&P 500 is mainly technology, and according to Yahoo Finance the S&P 500 is 31% technology, with  29.5% of that being only 7 stocks! (The Mag 7 or Magnificent 7) How Much Electricity Does Generative AI Use? Nvidia (NVDA) valuations are justified as the hyperscalers are top customers and we are seeing real earnings at incredible profit margins. The earnings potential makes sense. However, the energy consumption and subsequent pressure represents the real risk. Blackwell chips have not even made its way to market yet – each Blackwell AI GPU sold by Nvidia consumes up to 1200 watts of power, so 3.5mn of them would consume 1.8GW of power in the US alone. (Consensus estimates 3.5b in GPU sales by 2027). Validate Your Investment Thesis (What you eat, eats.) Look at the root of the problem with all of this AI grid pressure and see where the solutions might be (as in which companies are coming up with solutions for this bigger issue). "Sustainable AI" is still in its infancy, but maybe there are some companies out there that are using AI for good and to help come up with solutions to some of these issues? AI Opportunities (but do your homework) The grid pressure is a longer-term risk, it does not mean the AI story has peaked yet. AI build out cycle still in play: Opportunities still exist benefiting NVDA, AVGO, MRVL, AMD, and MU. Q1 earnings told us that capex spending is only increasing. Not adding more here, rather maintaining positioning. You can look into Copper and Uranium ETFs as well, just consider your personal ethics in investing and how that comes into play for you and which companies' success you truly want to be invested in (remember, when you buy a stock you are not giving money to the company directly, but you are invested in the success of that company). You can look at ESG ratings and do your own research to make sure you are comfortable with where you're putting your money. You can do whatever you want! **Remember personal finance is personal, this is not advice. We educate you on how to do your own research to make the right wise investing decisions for yourself.** Still Have More Questions or a Comment?  🙋🏾‍♀️🙋🏻🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏽‍♂️🙋Holla @ us on: ⁠Market MakeHer ⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to Our Newsletter Email jessica@marketmakeherpodcast.com  Instagram⁠ ⁠⁠@marketmakeherpodcast⁠⁠⁠ TikTok⁠ ⁠⁠@marketmakeher⁠⁠⁠ X/Twitter⁠ ⁠⁠@MarketMakeHer⁠⁠⁠ Join the Money Coven⁠ ⁠⁠FB Community⁠⁠⁠ 👀 Watch us in action on our⁠ ⁠⁠YouTube Channel⁠⁠⁠ 👀  About Us 🌚🌞 Market MakeHer is an investing education podcast taught by a 15-year finance expert to her friend who is a beginner investor. Our mission is to demystify the stock market and make financial literacy accessible to all self-directed investors! We believe that investing is for everyone and that's why we break down complex investing topics (from "Her" perspective), show you free tools/resources on our podcast, and offer a ton of free educational content on our ⁠website⁠!  Important Disclosures: Market MakeHer podcast is unsponsored at the time of recording.  Tools and resources mentioned are for informational and educational purposes only. Remember, investing involves risk, and there's always a potential for losses when investing in securities. Market MakeHer LLC provides educational content and resources, but we are not registered financial advisors and do not provide personalized investment advice. Consult with a licensed financial advisor before making any investment decisions. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/market-makeher/support

There are so many different ways to buy and sell securities in your brokerage account. In this episode, we'll go over many of the different order types you may see in your brokerage account when you go to buy or sell a stock, or any securities. What does Bid and Ask mean? What is Stop and Limit Order? What are market orders? How many different Order Types are there and what is the difference? This is your ‘set it and forget it” overview of order types for trading securities through your brokerage firm. Remember These Things: Take taxable events into account (capital gains, losses, selling before holding for 1 year, etc.) Don’t try to time the market. This is education, not advice. 😉 Limit Order vs Market Order: Limit Order guarantees price not execution Market Order guarantees execution   Trading Order Types Vocabulary:  Market Mechanics Bid & Ask Price Market Order Limit Order Stop Loss Order Trailing Stop Loss Stop Price  Limit Price Conditional Order Types FOK = Fill Or Kill GTC = Good Till Canceled  OTO = One Triggers Other OTOCO = One Triggers Other Cancel Other SPX  = S&P 500 Indice Symbol FINRA has a good explanation of Order Types   Visuals aka Jess Made a PowerPoint 👀 If you didn't know, Jess loves to make a deck! Check out the PowerPoint she made If you’re listening on Spotify, you can also watch the video podcast and follow along in the PP slides Jess Inskip made for us. We also eventually upload all of our video podcasts to our YouTube channel. Jess used stockcharts.com to make some of the visuals in our PowerPoint. We’ll post it on our website and slides on social media.   Episodes You May Also Like: We’ve already gone over Bid and Ask prices and how those market mechanics work in previous episodes as well. Check out Episodes 16 (on Dark Pools, PFOF, Market Makers). You might also like Episode 10 (how to read a stock quote) and Episode 14 (how to analyze a stock for beginners). 😉✨ Still Have More Questions or a Comment?  🙋🏾‍♀️🙋🏻🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏽‍♂️🙋Holla @ us on: ⁠Market MakeHer ⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to Our Newsletter Email jessica@marketmakeherpodcast.com  Instagram⁠ ⁠⁠@marketmakeherpodcast⁠⁠⁠ TikTok⁠ ⁠⁠@marketmakeher⁠⁠⁠ X/Twitter⁠ ⁠⁠@MarketMakeHer⁠⁠⁠ Join the Money Coven⁠ ⁠⁠FB Community⁠⁠⁠ 👀 Watch us in action on our⁠ ⁠⁠YouTube Channel⁠⁠⁠ 👀  About Us 🌚🌞 Market MakeHer is an investing education podcast taught by a 15-year finance expert to her friend who is a beginner investor. Our mission is to demystify the stock market and make financial literacy accessible to all self-directed investors! We believe that investing is for everyone and that's why we break down complex investing topics (from "Her" perspective), show you free tools/resources on our podcast, and offer a ton of free educational content on our ⁠website⁠!  Important Disclosures: Market MakeHer podcast is unsponsored at the time of recording.  Tools and resources mentioned are for informational and educational purposes only. Remember, investing involves risk, and there's always a potential for losses when investing in securities. Market MakeHer LLC provides educational content and resources, but we are not registered financial advisors and do not provide personalized investment advice. Consult with a licensed financial advisor before making any investment decisions. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/market-makeher/support

What Is The Bond Market and What Are Bond ETFs? CPI is “cooling off” which means inflation is trending closer to the Fed’s target, which means a rate cut MAY be in our future! What does that mean? Well if the Fed, you know, good ol "Papa Powell" who we keep talking about, well if they actually go through with cutting rates this is what happens. Interest rates for things like home loans get lower, but that means those high yield savings account rates also get lower. So where do you stash your cash and still get those great returns? Bonds. More specifically, we're looking at Bond ETFs. We've talked about different types of low risk investing on Ep. 31 about Brokerage CDs but we want y'all to know about all the ways you can make your money make money! Side Note Check out Jessica Inskip's most recent appearance on the ⁠Schwab Network Episode⁠ where her worlds collide. The Bond Market Ok, so apparently there is not only a stock market, but also a Bond market. Where do we begin? Need our listeners to know a few things:  You cannot time market, but you can prepare  We are not financial advisors, investing is personal. This is not that. We are here for educational and information purposes only.  OK, let’s talk about what happened, and define the SEP - series of economic projections.  Most recent: https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/files/fomcprojtabl20240612.pdf Different ways to lock in rates:  CDs Treasurys  Municipal Bonds  Corporate Bonds  Bond Funds  https://www.ishares.com/us/strategies/bond-etfs/build-better-bond-ladders Ratings Guide:  https://www.fidelity.com/learning-center/investment-products/fixed-income-bonds/bond-ratings#:~:text=Investment%20grade%20and%20high%20yield,rated%20Ba1%2FBB%2B%20and%20lower. Still Have More Questions or a Comment?  🙋🏾‍♀️🙋🏻🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏽‍♂️🙋Holla @ us on: ⁠Market MakeHer ⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to Our Newsletter Instagram⁠ ⁠⁠@marketmakeherpodcast⁠⁠⁠ TikTok⁠ ⁠⁠@marketmakeher⁠⁠⁠ X/Twitter⁠ ⁠⁠@MarketMakeHer⁠⁠⁠ Join the Money Coven⁠ ⁠⁠FB Community⁠⁠⁠ 👀 Watch us in action on our⁠ ⁠⁠YouTube Channel⁠⁠⁠ 👀 About Us 🌚🌞Market MakeHer is an investing education podcast taught by a 15-year finance expert to her friend who is a beginner investor. Our mission is to demystify the stock market and make financial literacy accessible to all self-directed investors! We believe that investing is for everyone and that's why we break down complex investing topics (from "Her" perspective), show you free tools/resources on our podcast, and offer a ton of free educational content on our ⁠website⁠! Important Disclosures: Market MakeHer podcast is unsponsored at the time of recording. Tools and resources mentioned are for informational and educational purposes only. Remember, investing involves risk, and there's always a potential for losses when investing in securities. Market MakeHer LLC provides educational content and resources, but we are not registered financial advisors and do not provide personalized investment advice. Consult with a licensed financial advisor before making any investment decisions. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/market-makeher/support

Happy Fin-Friday! The Nvidia stock is now one of the big 3 in the S&P 500. We've talked about Nvidia earnings and how much the stock price has soared just this year. Now they have announced a stock split and a dividend increase from $0.04 per share to $0.10 per share. Let's demystify stock splitting. 🔮 🍰 What Is A Stock Split? A type of corporate action that changes the cost of a stock. Forward split - When a company increases the outstanding shares by issuing new shares to split up the value of each new share. NVDA did a 10 for 1 split (ie - if the stock is $1000 per share it is now $100 per share and everything rebalances everywhere), but companies can also do a 2 for 1, 3 for 1, etc. Say you had a sheet cake cut into 10 squares, but there are more people who want their own piece of cake, so you cut each piece in half and now there are 20 pieces of cake. Reverse split - It's the opposite, companies do this to increase the stock price (for example, if the stock price falls below $1) Why Is Nvidia splitting their stock? According to their 2024 Stock Split FAQ the stock split is intended to make stock ownership more accessible to employees and investors. Investor Relations You can look at the investor relations for any company on their website to see the history of things like how many times they have done a stock split (for example, Nvidia has split their stock 6 times now). Let us know your questions around stock splitting or any other investing topic. And as always, keep learning, keep earning, and keep breaking barriers! xoxo, Fin-Mom & Fin-Auntie Still Have More Questions or a Comment?  🙋🏾‍♀️🙋🏻🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏽‍♂️🙋Holla @ us on: ⁠Market MakeHer ⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to Our Newsletter Instagram⁠ ⁠⁠@marketmakeherpodcast⁠⁠⁠ TikTok⁠ ⁠⁠@marketmakeher⁠⁠⁠ X/Twitter⁠ ⁠⁠@MarketMakeHer⁠⁠⁠ Join the Money Coven⁠ ⁠⁠FB Community⁠⁠⁠ 👀 Watch us in action on our⁠ ⁠⁠YouTube Channel⁠⁠⁠ 👀 About Us 🌚🌞 Market MakeHer is an investing education podcast taught by a 15-year finance expert to her friend who is a beginner investor. Our mission is to demystify the stock market and make financial literacy accessible to all self-directed investors! We believe that investing is for everyone and that's why we break down complex investing topics (from "Her" perspective), show you free tools/resources on our podcast, and offer a ton of free educational content on our ⁠website⁠! Important Disclosures: Market MakeHer podcast is unsponsored at the time of recording. Tools and resources mentioned are for informational and educational purposes only. Remember, investing involves risk, and there's always a potential for losses when investing in securities. Market MakeHer LLC provides educational content and resources, but we are not registered financial advisors and do not provide personalized investment advice. Consult with a licensed financial advisor before making any investment decisions. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/market-makeher/support

Finally, short squeeze and gamma squeeze make sense! (Did you know gamma squeeze was a thing?) Also, Roaring Kitty is out of hiding, remember that whole GameStop stonks thing that happened? Well apparently it's happening again with another memestock (super high risk, y'all). We also learn about hedge funds, meme stocks, market makers and the roles played in making money off shorting stocks (or squeezing out the shorters). Check out our episode on Dark Pools for more background. We also very briefly discuss Options! Hedge funds are regulated and here's the link we mentioned for that: https://www.sec.gov/files/ib_hedgefunds.pdf The Takeaway: Shorting a stock is super risky. You're gambling on the failure of a company, essentially, and this tends to happen in hedge funds. A short squeeze is an event that happens when the people who are shorting stock shares have to cover the cost of the shorted stock because now the price is going up due to unforeseen demand (people suddenly buying it) and getting squeezed out of that position. It's like we always say, investing involves risk. ;) Still Have More Questions or a Comment?  🙋🏾‍♀️🙋🏻🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏽‍♂️🙋Holla @ us on: ⁠Market MakeHer ⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to Our Newsletter Instagram⁠ ⁠⁠@marketmakeherpodcast⁠⁠⁠ TikTok⁠ ⁠⁠@marketmakeher⁠⁠⁠ X/Twitter⁠ ⁠⁠@MarketMakeHer⁠⁠⁠ Join the Money Coven⁠ ⁠⁠FB Community⁠⁠⁠ 👀 Watch us in action on our⁠ ⁠⁠YouTube Channel⁠⁠⁠ 👀 About Us 🌚🌞 Market MakeHer is an investing education podcast taught by a 15-year finance expert to her friend who is a beginner investor. Our mission is to demystify the stock market and make financial literacy accessible to all self-directed investors! We believe that investing is for everyone and that's why we break down complex investing topics (from "Her" perspective), show you free tools/resources on our podcast, and offer a ton of free educational content on our ⁠website⁠! Important Disclosures: Market MakeHer podcast is unsponsored at the time of recording. Tools and resources mentioned are for informational and educational purposes only. Remember, investing involves risk, and there's always a potential for losses when investing in securities. Market MakeHer LLC provides educational content and resources, but we are not registered financial advisors and do not provide personalized investment advice. Consult with a licensed financial advisor before making any investment decisions. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/market-makeher/support

This week we are joined by Jacey Saige, a Gen Z financial literacy advocate who wants to discuss how to find AI opportunities and stock market impacts. Jacey is filling in for our beloved Jessie DeNuit - do not fret she will be back next week! AI is an important narrative to sustain this bull market. The S&P 500 is about 30% driven by technology. 5% is NVDA. Which means the AI narrative matters because of how we define the market. NVDA is about duration and demand pull for AI. NVDA reports after the hyperscalers: (GOOGL, META, AMZN, MSFT). There is a new emerging AI headwind: Grid pressure. AI is using a lot of power, every new iteration of NVDA becomes more efficient, the issue arises as demand is growing at an astronomical rate. Grid pressure is a byproduct of compute growth. The opportunity: power providers that can bring to market faster, or alternative, like nuclear power, quickly and at better margins. Meet Jacey Saige! Jacey got her first taste of entrepreneurship at 16yrs old, she amassed 30k followers on Instagram and TikTok through sharing her art. Transitioning seamlessly from showcasing her creativity to managing social media, she honed her skills as a freelance manager and created her first business. Now, as she delves into the world of finance, Jacey's journey has taken an exciting new turn. Pursuing a degree in finance, Jacey shares her insights and discoveries on TikTok @jacey_saige, demystifying investing and empowering her audience to take control of their financial futures. She brings a fresh perspective to the often intimidating world of finance, making it accessible to all. Still Have More Questions or a Comment?  🙋🏾‍♀️🙋🏻🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏽‍♂️🙋Holla @ us on: ⁠Market MakeHer ⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to Our Newsletter Instagram⁠ ⁠⁠@marketmakeherpodcast⁠⁠⁠ TikTok⁠ ⁠⁠@marketmakeher⁠⁠⁠ X/Twitter⁠ ⁠⁠@MarketMakeHer⁠⁠⁠ Join the Money Coven⁠ ⁠⁠FB Community⁠⁠⁠ 👀 Watch us in action on our⁠ ⁠⁠YouTube Channel⁠⁠⁠ 👀 About Us 🌚🌞 Market MakeHer is an investing education podcast taught by a 15-year finance expert to her friend who is a beginner investor. Our mission is to demystify the stock market and make financial literacy accessible to all self-directed investors! We believe that investing is for everyone and that's why we break down complex investing topics (from "Her" perspective), show you free tools/resources on our podcast, and offer a ton of free educational content on our ⁠website⁠! Important Disclosures: Market MakeHer podcast is unsponsored at the time of recording. Tools and resources mentioned are for informational and educational purposes only. Remember, investing involves risk, and there's always a potential for losses when investing in securities. Market MakeHer LLC provides educational content and resources, but we are not registered financial advisors and do not provide personalized investment advice. Consult with a licensed financial advisor before making any investment decisions. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/market-makeher/support

The bond market has always been relevant, but it hasn't mattered as much since the Great Financial Crisis (GFC) - that's when the housing market collapsed in 2008. When we have a financial crisis, there is a fiscal policy response and monetary policy response to stimulate the economy. Right now we are in restrictive fed territory, they have raised rates to levels not seen since the GFC. Now the big market question is: when will they lower rates? If they do it too soon, it will reignite inflation, too late, it will tip us into a recession. The Fed's action affect the front end of the curve... when they lower and raise rates. WHICH AFFECTS YOU. (and that HYSA). You need to understand the yield curve and what de-inversion would mean. Is The Fed going to tip us into a recession? What does that even mean? We've been seeing your questions around this and more after our recent episodes on the FOMC meetings. Let's revisit how the yield curve works so we can all understand how the stock market and bond market is affected by The Fed's actions and what an inverted yield curve means for your money. *This episode was recorded back in November 2023, so some things mentioned are related to that month, but overall still relevant to what's happening now.* Still Have More Questions or a Comment?  🙋🏾‍♀️🙋🏻🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏽‍♂️🙋Holla @ us on: ⁠Market MakeHer ⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to Our Newsletter Instagram⁠ ⁠⁠@marketmakeherpodcast⁠⁠⁠ TikTok⁠ ⁠⁠@marketmakeher⁠⁠⁠ X/Twitter⁠ ⁠⁠@MarketMakeHer⁠⁠⁠ Join the Money Coven⁠ ⁠⁠FB Community⁠⁠⁠ 👀 Watch us in action on our⁠ ⁠⁠YouTube Channel⁠⁠⁠ 👀 About Us 🌚🌞 Market MakeHer is an investing education podcast taught by a 15-year finance expert to her friend who is a beginner investor. Our mission is to demystify the stock market and make financial literacy accessible to all self-directed investors! We believe that investing is for everyone and that's why we break down complex investing topics (from "Her" perspective), show you free tools/resources on our podcast, and offer a ton of free educational content on our ⁠website⁠! Important Disclosures: Market MakeHer podcast is unsponsored at the time of recording. Tools and resources mentioned are for informational and educational purposes only. Remember, investing involves risk, and there's always a potential for losses when investing in securities. Market MakeHer LLC provides educational content and resources, but we are not registered financial advisors and do not provide personalized investment advice. Consult with a licensed financial advisor before making any investment decisions. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/market-makeher/support

Come with us as we leap through the gallows and levitate down WallStreet. 🔮 Today we're discussing the most recent FOMC Press Conference led by the Hawkish Fed Chairman, Jerome Powell, and what it all means when he talks about the CPI & PCE Price Index. There's also a quick SMU (stock market update). New Vocabulary Word: Tapering Tapering is a monetary policy used by the Federal Reserve to phase out or reduce the number of assets purchased each month. Listen for more info. Inflation Is Still Too High, When Are Interest Rates Getting Cut? Remember in Episode 30 when we talked about how The Fed is projecting to cut rates 3 times this year (and how that's good for getting loans and lower CC interest rates, but bad for our HYSA)? Well now the Federal Reserve is not confident enough in the data to cut those interest rates just yet. They're being left at 5.25-5.5% (for the banks, but then we will still be seeing higher loan rates). The Fed's Dual Mandate Papa Powell stated that maximum employment and stable inflation at 2% is still the objective. So what is inflation at right now?  CPI 3.5% YoY (reported in April, for March) Core is at 3.8% https://www.bls.gov/charts/consumer-price-index/consumer-price-index-by-category-line-chart.htm PPI 2.8% YoY (reported in April, for March) Core is at 2.1%  https://www.bls.gov/charts/producer-price-index/final-demand-12-month-percent-change.htm PCE 2.7% YoY (reported in April, for March) Next release May 31st Core is at 2.8% YoY https://www.bea.gov/news/2024/personal-income-and-outlays-march-2024 Low Unemployment Rates & Labor Demands The Fed also said unemployment rates are low and there are labor demands, but in which industries? We know a lot of people struggling to find jobs in marketing and tech right now, so which industries have labor demand? Here are 2 tools to help you find out: https://www.bls.gov/ooh/fastest-growing.htm https://www.bls.gov/ooh/most-new-jobs.htm What is PPI and CPI in Fed Speak? In Episode 15 we explained PPI & CPI: PPI: producer price index = is the perspective of the seller  CPI: consumer price index = is the perspective of the buyer Methodology and definition: https://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/cpi/data.htm Latest report: https://www.bls.gov/charts/consumer-price-index/consumer-price-index-by-category.htm# Still Have More Questions or a Comment?  🙋🏾‍♀️🙋🏻🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏽‍♂️🙋Holla @ us on: ⁠Market MakeHer ⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to Our Newsletter Instagram⁠ ⁠⁠@marketmakeherpodcast⁠⁠⁠ TikTok⁠ ⁠⁠@marketmakeher⁠⁠⁠ X/Twitter⁠ ⁠⁠@MarketMakeHer⁠⁠⁠ Join the Money Coven⁠ ⁠⁠FB Community⁠⁠⁠ 👀 Watch us in action on our⁠ ⁠⁠YouTube Channel⁠⁠⁠ 👀 About Us 🌚🌞 Market MakeHer is an investing education podcast taught by a 15-year finance expert to her friend who is a beginner investor. Our mission is to demystify the stock market and make financial literacy accessible to all self-directed investors! We believe that investing is for everyone and that's why we break down complex investing topics (from "Her" perspective), show you free tools/resources on our podcast, and offer a ton of free educational content on our ⁠website⁠! Important Disclosures: Market MakeHer podcast is unsponsored at the time of recording. Tools and resources mentioned are for informational and educational purposes only. Remember, investing involves risk, and there's always a potential for losses when investing in securities. Market MakeHer LLC provides educational content and resources, but we are not registered financial advisors and do not provide personalized investment advice. Consult with a licensed financial advisor before making any investment decisions. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/market-makeher/support

There's a loooot of jargon in the financial world. And it can seem overwhelming or like it's a language that was intentionally made to keep you in the dark, but Jess has been shining light on all this lingo since the beginning, and we've realized the jargon is actually pretty easy to grasp once it's explained to you in a logical, compounding way. Compounding Knowledge 🧠✨ Just like your money compounds with interest, your investing knowledge compounds by starting off with the basic terms and building upon them. We'll take you through about 20 terms today (and we'll probably make a cute worksheet for you as well). It's In The Name! It's true, most of these jargony terms are self-explanatory and the answer is literally "in the name" for a lot of them. We start with the basic stock market terms you need to know and build upon them. You gotta know what capital is before you understand market cap, capital appreciation and capital gain, for example. ;) Still Have More Questions or a Comment?  🙋🏾‍♀️🙋🏻🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏽‍♂️🙋Holla @ us on: ⁠Market MakeHer ⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to Our Newsletter Instagram⁠ ⁠⁠@marketmakeherpodcast⁠⁠⁠ TikTok⁠ ⁠⁠@marketmakeher⁠⁠⁠ X/Twitter⁠ ⁠⁠@MarketMakeHer⁠⁠⁠ Join the Money Coven⁠ ⁠⁠FB Community⁠⁠⁠ 👀 Watch us in action on our⁠ ⁠⁠YouTube Channel⁠⁠⁠ 👀 About Us 🌚🌞 Market MakeHer is an investing education podcast taught by a 15-year finance expert to her friend who is a beginner investor. Our mission is to demystify the stock market and make financial literacy accessible to all self-directed investors! We believe that investing is for everyone and that's why we break down complex investing topics (from "Her" perspective), show you free tools/resources on our podcast, and offer a ton of free educational content on our ⁠website⁠! Important Disclosures: Market MakeHer podcast is unsponsored at the time of recording. Tools and resources mentioned are for informational and educational purposes only. Remember, investing involves risk, and there's always a potential for losses when investing in securities. Market MakeHer LLC provides educational content and resources, but we are not registered financial advisors and do not provide personalized investment advice. Consult with a licensed financial advisor before making any investment decisions. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/market-makeher/support

Questions on questions: Y'all submitted sooo many questions we had to make this Q&A a two-parter. Be sure to follow us and subscribe to our email newsletter (all links at the bottom) to keep up with all the stock market happenings! But First, A Quick SMU! We also get a quick Stock Market Update from Jess Inskip. This investing rollercoaster we're on has been a bit of a dooziie this past week - what's happening? Remember, we're buckled in for the ups and downs! You know Jess is going to tell us in Swiftie speak every chance she gets... AI: I can still make the whole place shimmer The Dollar: I'm on my vigilante sh*t again Oil: I'll be the actress staring in your bad dreams The Fed: It's a cruel summer Answering Your Questions: Dalia asked a question from our What are mutual funds and ETFs? (Episode 04): Can you talk more about those fees behind index funds? Also, I’m wondering where exactly the money that a fund returns comes from. Is it an interest, companies’ profits or something else? @maljones asked a question from What Are Preferred Stocks (Ep. 07): Are preferred stocks also called options? Are they the same thing or different concepts? Jane Smith Carson asked: Other 'educators' talk crap about picking stocks, your advice makes me feel more confident to diversify my own portfolio. ETF. Re: step 1, what are some other fin-ed resources and podcasts you like? Check out: Napkin Finance by Tina Hay (book); Mad Money Podcast by Jim Cramer (first 10 minutes is stock market updates for self-directed investors); BOA global research (dry podcast but informative); Compound and Friends (podcast); Money with Katie (podcast); Fresh Invest (podcast); The Bid (BlackRock podcast produced by our friend @iamsteviemanns); the Fred website for economic data. @Yankees asked: I see so many posts about less and less people buying homes why are prices still going up?  Carrie Nicholson asked: My son will be entering the work force soon. How can I set him up for financial success?  Anonymous: Dividend Stocks – what are they, how do they work? ----------------------- Still Have More Questions or a Comment?  🙋🏾‍♀️🙋🏻🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏽‍♂️🙋Holla @ us on: ⁠Market MakeHer ⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to Our Newsletter Instagram⁠ ⁠⁠@marketmakeherpodcast⁠⁠⁠ TikTok⁠ ⁠⁠@marketmakeher⁠⁠⁠ X/Twitter⁠ ⁠⁠@MarketMakeHer⁠⁠⁠ Join the Money Coven⁠ ⁠⁠FB Community⁠⁠⁠ 👀 Watch us in action on our⁠ ⁠⁠YouTube Channel⁠⁠⁠ 👀 About Us Market MakeHer is an investing education podcast taught by a 15-year finance expert to her friend who is a beginner investor. Our mission is to demystify the stock market and make financial literacy accessible to all self-directed investors! We believe that investing is for everyone and that's why we break down complex investing topics (from "Her" perspective), show you free tools/resources on our podcast, and offer a ton of free educational content on our ⁠website⁠! Important Disclosures: Market MakeHer podcast is unsponsored at the time of recording. Tools and resources mentioned are for informational and educational purposes only. Remember, investing involves risk, and there's always a potential for losses when investing in securities. Market MakeHer LLC provides educational content and resources, but we are not registered financial advisors and do not provide personalized investment advice. Consult with a licensed financial advisor before making any investment decisions. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/market-makeher/support