Best of 2025: Top Chart of the Week Posts
December 30, 2025
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Throughout 2025, our team of investment professionals has remained dedicated to conducting thorough research and analysis of the trends shaping today’s financial markets. Each week, we have shared these perspectives through our Chart of the Week blog series, offering deeper insights into prominent themes, evolving market conditions and the forces influencing investor sentiment.
As the year concludes, we’re taking a moment to highlight the most viewed posts of 2025. We invite you to revisit these insights and trust that you will find continued value in the perspectives they offer.
Source: National Retail Federation
2. Can the Trump Administration Help Lower Mortgage Rates to Improve Housing Affordability?
Source: Bloomberg
3. Inside Gold’s Retreat: What the Options Market Revealed
Source: Bloomberg
4. Private Equity is Betting Big on Professional Sports
Source: PitchBook Data, Inc. – Private Capital in Sports: PE Is Up to Bat; Data as of 5/20/2025
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