Summing Up The Week The stock market swayed with every news story revolving around trade deals this week with stocks and Bitcoin rising and falling at the whims of President Donald Trump. The Federal Reserve announced no change to the benchmark interest rate which...
Summing Up The Week This week proved that the labor market remains strong in the U.S. despite a contracting economy. Inflation also appeared in March to slow which kept calls for stagflation at bay, for now. Unfortunately, the lagging data still hasn’t revealed...
Summing Up The Week Even in the throes of earnings season with economic datapoints released nearly daily, the movement of the markets has been dominated by comments from the Trump administration, China, and talk of tariffs and the the ongoing Trade War. On Monday, the...
Summing Up The Week The shortened trading week (thanks to the Good Friday holiday) started off relatively benign without a whole lot of volatility, a welcome change in comparison to the past two weeks. However, when consumer spending revealed a front-running of buying...
Summing Up The Week President Donald Trump keeps bringing the hits when it comes to market-moving news. On Monday, indexes opened the day down significantly before recovering their losses more or less by the end of the day. Tuesday saw the reverse – stocks...
Summing Up The Week You would have had to been crazy to think that any of the datapoints released before Wednesday would have dramatically affected the markets one way or another. No, this week was always going to be about “Tariff Wednesday” and the jobs...
