Summing Up The Week Inflation delaying the next Federal Reserve interest rate cut was the drumbeat of the news this week with both the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Producer Price Index (PPI) inflation gauges coming in hotter than expected. Federal Reserve Chairman...
Summing Up The Week It only took a few weeks for stock market participants to remember President Donald Trump’s “amazing” negotiation tactics from his first term. Initially, stocks sold off Monday morning on the back of Trump threatening massive...
Summing Up The Week As if the week didn’t have enough ahead of it with all of the earnings reports and the Fed Meeting, a little-known Chinese startup called DeepSeek kicked off the week by terrifying the entire market. DeepSeek made everyone think China had...
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...
Summing Up The Week Just like September before it, October seems to be defying seasonality as stocks continued to rally this week. This week, the U.S. consumer remains resilient, earnings (particularly from banks) continue to come in strong, and news about nuclear...