Market perspectives

Join Plante Moran Wealth Management on June 29 for our Investor Insights webinar. Led by the firm’s Chief Investment Officer Jim Baird, our experts will share perspectives on capital market conditions and discuss the mid-year economic and market outlook.

Sales at U.S. retailers slowed in May as the benefit of government stimulus checks ebbed and consumer spending cooled.

The recent surge in prices isn’t letting up yet, but the underlying causes behind the uptick in inflation pressures still appear to be more likely temporary than not.

After an extended period of intermittent deflation concerns, rising prices have reemerged as an economic risk and growing source of frustration for consumers.