Week in Review #382

Week in Review #382

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...
Week in Review #381

Week in Review #381

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...
Week in Review #380

Week in Review #380

Summing Up The Week With a shortened trading week thanks to the American Thanksgiving holiday, a lot of market participants were taking a break. As a result, the selling also went on vacation with stocks and Bitcoin rallying after the past few weeks’ price...
Week in Review #379

Week in Review #379

Summing Up The Week Has the bull market come to an end or is this pullback simply the pause that refreshes? The markets weren’t particularly strong for the majority of the week, briefly rallying after Nvidia reported earnings only to roll over and give it all...
Week in Review #378

Week in Review #378

Summing Up The Week While the Federal Government reopening gave some life to markets, that bullish rally was smacked down hard when Federal Reserve members reinforced Chair Jerome Powell’s hawkish comments from the last meeting about a December rate cut not...
Week in Review #377

Week in Review #377

Summing Up The Week With the government shutdown approaching record lengths, there has been a dearth of economic datapoints. In fact, this week marks two months in a row where we haven’t received updated payroll reports, a key indicator of the health of the U.S....