Summing Up The Week There’s no sense in bearing the lead – the announced progress in the U.S.-China trade talks drove the markets significantly higher this week when the two countries announced a 90-day tariff pause on Monday. This sent the S&P 500 up...
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 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 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 The Bulls and the Bears still can’t figure out which way they want to take stocks. Whenever one camp gets a foothold, the other swings their legs out from under them. On the one hand, the intraday volatility can provide a lot of opportunities...