Last week we said Wednesday's PCE report would settle whether the gold and crude move was a signal. It came in hot. Gold gave back $147.96 and Energy finished last. Here's why.

The 30-year Treasury yield moved one basis point last week. Gold rose $227 an ounce. That pairing rules out the explanation most people will reach for.

Rates up, income sectors down. Rates down, income sectors down. Rates up, income sectors up. Three weeks, one explanation, and it only worked once.

The S&P 500 gained 3.59% on a jobs report the market read as good news. Underneath it, the sectors retirees hold for income sat out a second straight week.

The index closed higher, but utilities and real estate led the market lower. The Treasury market explains why, and it matters more to retirement income than the headline does.

Stocks slipped, but the real move was in the bond market: yields jumped and oil hit $89 as the market repriced inflation — two days before the Fed. What it means for a retirement portfolio.

Seven of eleven sectors rose in a week the S&P 500 fell 1.55%. That isn't a market selloff — it's one trade getting audited.

Stocks shrugged off a broken ceasefire, bonds priced a hawkish Fed, and a few names carried the index. Every one of those bets gets graded this week — two of them Tuesday morning.

The jobs report missed badly — and the Dow closed at a record high. That's not a contradiction. It's the clearest signal yet about what this market actually fears, and what it means heading into earnings season.

The S&P 500 fell nearly 2% last week. But the more important move wasn't in equities at all — it was in the bond market, where yields fell at the same time stocks did. Here's what that signal means, and what Thursday's jobs report will tell us about whether it was right.

Oil dropped sharply and the market tried to broaden — but the Fed's tone this week changed the conversation in a way that matters more for retirement portfolios than the index numbers do.

The S&P 500 was up last week. So were the Dow and Nasdaq. But the more interesting move happened underneath the headline numbers — and it has real implications for anyone approaching or in retirement. Here's what actually shifted, and what it means for your plan.