Jan 9, 2026
Summing Up The Week Stock market participants shook off the United States’ invasion of Venezuela, surprising many pundits who anticipated a selloff as the result of increased military conflict. Instead, stocks rallied to kick off the first full trading week of...
Jan 2, 2026
Summing Up The Week The “Santa Claus Rally” is an odd thing in the stock market. Given its name, there’s a lot of confusion around when, specifically, it happens each year (if it happens at all). Despite sounding like it would happen before the Christmas holiday, the...
Dec 26, 2025
Summing Up The Week Santa Claus came to town during this holiday-shortened week (with markets closed on Christmas Day and trading only Monday–Wednesday plus Friday). U.S. stock indexes posted solid gains amid thin volume, indicating the start of the year-end Santa...
Dec 19, 2025
Summing Up The Week The delayed November jobs report drove this week’s price action when investors learned the labor market may be weaker than even the Bears thought, losing 105,000 jobs in October and only making 64,000 new ones to replace them in November....
Dec 12, 2025
Summing Up The Week After a few sleepy days of trading leading up to the main event of the Federal Reserve meeting, the market seemed to react with great excitement to the much-foreseen rate cut on Wednesday with positive market action leading through Thursday’s...
Dec 5, 2025
Summing Up The Week This week we saw examples of both bad news being good news and good news being good news. First, a private survey in China showed a contraction in their factory activity, potentially showing a slowdown in the global economy. Then, ADP’s...
