Macro - how does this affect the individual stocks?
How does Macro affect the stock market and companies? Macroeconomic <Federal Reserve GOV> Macroeconomics is the study of whole economies--the part of economics concerned with large-scale or general economic factors and how they interact in economies. <Investopedia> A macroeconomic factor is an influential fiscal, natural, or geopolitical event that broadly affects a regional or national economy. The relationships between various macroeconomic factors are extensively studied in the field of macroeconomics. Examples of macroeconomic factors include economic outputs, unemployment rates, and inflation. Macroeconomics look at the elements of inflation , unemployment and economic growth - driven by monetary/fiscal policies and structured in different market models (essentially capitalist versus non-capitalist). Some of these (inflation, unemployment & economic growth) are causes, some of these effects and some are both. Factors affec...