Week in Review #354

Week in Review #354

Summing Up The Week While the last week may have been a shortened trading week thanks to the Memorial Day weekend, the list of prominent news events was certainly not short. The market received a bullish shot in the arm over the last weekend when Trump delayed his 50%...
Week in Review #352

Week in Review #352

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...
Week in Review #349

Week in Review #349

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...
Week in Review #347

Week in Review #347

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...
Week in Review #338

Week in Review #338

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...