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Reinhart Fixed Income Week in Review by Madison Investments 05.20.22

With a continued increase in consumer spending during April, and Michigan Legislature passing a tax cut bill, Reinhart Fixed Income share their thoughts on this week’s noteworthy news.

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Reinhart Fixed Income Week in Review by Madison Investments 05.13.22

In this Week in Review, Reinhart’s Fixed Income team discusses April’s Consumer Price Index and Producer Price Index results and Illinois’ improved fiscal health.

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Reinhart Fixed Income Week in Review by Madison Investments 05.06.22

This week Reinhart's Fixed Income team examines the Fed's latest actions toward a tightening cycle, April's employment report, and the budget surplus expected in California.

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Reinhart Fixed Income Week in Review by Madison Investments 04.29.22

In this version of Week In Review, the Reinhart Fixed Income team looks at first quarter GDP results, increases in personal income, Russia cutting off gas shipments, and more.

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Reinhart Fixed Income Week in Review by Madison Investments 04.22.22

With new comments from Fed members ahead of May’s meeting, a COVID resurgence in China, and credit upgrades to New York bonds, Reinhart’s Fixed Income team shares their insights on the week's events in the latest Week in Review.

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Madison Client Communication | 1Q 2022

After three solid years in the equity markets, the first quarter of 2022 was a vastly different environment. It marked two years of pandemic complications including lost lives, business closures, lower labor force participation, supply chain disruptions, and higher commodity prices. The pandemic has also played a large role in the elevated inflation we are seeing today.

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Market Volatility is Back... With Few Places for Investors to Hide

Fixed Income Perspectives for the First Quarter of 2022 Financial markets experienced one of the most volatile periods in years during the first quarter of 2022, even when compared to the dramatic moves as the Covid-19 shutdown unfolded. Spanning equity, commodity, and bond markets, investors found few places to hide. However, after experiencing this rapid repricing, there are reasons to be optimistic going forward.

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Temporary disruption or seismic shift?

Equity Market Perspectives for the First Quarter of 2022 Over 15 months ago, in one of our year-end letters summarizing 2020, we mentioned how so many events were packed into the year; it felt like we experienced a decade’s worth of macro-economic and geopolitical events in one year, including but not limited to, a pandemic, 1960s-style social unrest, a disputed political contest, and extremely volatile stock markets. To that list, we can now add a war involving a major global power.

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