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4400 Post Oak Pkwy #200
Houston, TX 77027
Financial Synergies Wealth Advisors is a fee-only, fiduciary Financial Advisor in Houston, Texas. We specialize in wealth management services, including comprehensive financial planning and investment management.
For more than thirty years we’ve been serving the financial needs of individuals, families, and businesses in Houston, Texas and around the country.
Wealth Management Services include financial planning, retirement planning, investment management, tax planning, insurance planning, estate planning, and company retirement plans.
Week In Perspective: Sellers Take Over in Shortened Week [10-Sept-21]
The stock market had a tough four-day week, with the S&P 500 losing 1.7% and closing lower in each session as buyers appeared exhausted. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (-2.2%) and the Russell 2000 (-2.8%) both declined more than 2.0% while the Nasdaq Composite declined 1.6%.
All 11 S&P 500 sectors finished the week in negative territory, led lower by the real estate (-3.9%), health care (-2.7%), and industrials (-2.5%) sectors with losses over 2.0%. The top-weighted information technology sector declined 1.8%, while the consumer discretionary sector (-0.3%) outperformed on a relative basis.
No one event dragged the market lower. Instead, it was a confluence of negative-sounding news that pressured risk sentiment amid speculation for a larger pullback.
On the macro-related front:
On the corporate front:
The 10-yr yield increased two basis points to 1.34% amid some hot PPI data for August and continued improvement in the weekly initial and continuing claims report.
Week in perspective provided by Briefing.com
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