Dec 20, 2024
Summing Up The Week If you’ve read my blog from the beginning, you’ll remember I started Get Irked in August 2018. Little did I know what an exciting Christmas Eve we’d have back then. Then-President Donald Trump appointed Jerome Powell as Federal...
Dec 13, 2024
Summing Up The Week The S&P 500 traded within a range this week leaving no clear winners between the Bulls and the Bears. A series of mixed inflation reports and other differing economic data left many market participants wondering if we should just wait for the...
Dec 6, 2024
Summing Up The Week The market rally continued over the past week with the S&P 500 making new all-time highs seemingly every day. Despite mixed economic and geopolitical datapoints which could have sent stocks higher, the combination of positive seasonality and...
Nov 29, 2024
Summing Up The Week The stock market melt-up shows no signs of slowing, with the S&P 500 making new all-time highs once again over the holiday-shortened week. The week kicked off with the market loving President-Elect Donald Trump’s new pick for Treasury...
Nov 22, 2024
Summing Up The Week In my 26 years investing in the stock market, I’ve seen some absolutely crazy things from the dot-com crash to the near destruction of global financial markets during the Great Financial Crisis. However, as horrible as the negative catalysts...
Nov 15, 2024
Summing Up The Week After the epic rally last week, the market spent much of this week taking a breather. The Bulls kept trying to push the indexes higher, but selling continued to keep stocks from rallying out of hand like they did last week. Let’s take a look...
