May 31, 2024
Summing Up The Week While many think the tried-and-true stock market adage is “Sell in May and Go Away” due to professional traders going on vacation for the summer, the original quote was actually “Buy in May and Make Some Hay.” While the...
May 24, 2024
Summing Up The Week Early in the week, stocks remained relatively uneventful, staying flat to slightly positive for the majority of the week until Thursday. At that point, signs of reigniting inflation spooked investors. Despite Nvidia’s absolutely outstanding...
May 17, 2024
Summing Up The Week Dueling inflation reports kept investors on their toes this week. Initially, Tuesday’s report looked unpleasant until pundits pointed out the revisions of past months might indicate a reversal in rising inflation. Wednesday cinched the the...
May 10, 2024
Exciting News! Get Irked’s Moving to Substack! After nearly six years of providing FREE content, the time constraints of producing Investments in Play, Speculation in Play, the Pandemic Portfolio, and Stock Shopping List have become too much to continue doing...
May 3, 2024
Summing Up The Week The market spent the week whipsawing on every news catalyst, initially seeing a negative reaction to the move in the yen, Japan’s weakened currency, then popping on the back of the Fed’s dovish comments only to give it all back at the...