Summing Up The Week The stock market always looks for a reason to sell in September and it didn’t have to wait long with disappointing manufacturing news on Tuesday. The labor market didn’t have anything good to say, either, with job openings falling more...
Summing Up The Week Stocks spent the first three days of the week waffling between slight gains and slight losses while market participants waited Nvidia’s (NVDA) earnings after the close on Wednesday. Nvidia did beat both the quarter and raised guidance…...
Summing Up The Week As many analysts expected, it was a quiet week in stocks for the first half, however, on Thursday, investors got jittery going into the Federal Reserve meeting in Jackson Hole and caused the stock market to sell off a bit with the S&P 500 down...
Summing Up The Week Volatility’s a funny thing in the stock market. The market can be muted and calm for weeks, if not months, and, suddenly, volatility comes in like a wrecking ball, positively destroys a few key trades, and then swings back out of the market...
Summing Up The Week I started Get Irked six years ago on August 6, 2018 with the intention of helping investors with their investing journey by discussing my successes and failures. Since then, it’s been an exciting ride with more than a thousand blog entries,...
Summing Up The Week Volatility reached year-over-year highs this week as economic data and bad earnings slammed markets. Friday’s jobs report capped off the concerns with higher-than-expected unemployment triggering what’s called the Sahm Rule (read on to...
