Summing Up The Week After four years of basically being able to ignore commentary from the White House, this week reminded me of the power of ex-President Donald Trump’s rhetoric on the markets. With positive news coming out early in the week, the stock market...
Summing Up The Week The economic datapoints for the week came in fairly in-line, not causing much of a market reaction in either direction as stocks continued to grind higher. The real market-moving catalyst was Thursday’s Presidential Debate, where President...
Summing Up The Week The markets continued to rally over the course of the holiday-shortened week on the back of what at least pundit nicknamed “Softilocks.” A combination of softening economic data with increasing unemployment has created a...
Summing Up The Week Could the Federal Reserve actually pull of a “Soft Landing?” It’s certainly starting to look that way. With last week’s jobs report showing rising unemployment potentially indicating a cooling economy, and both the CPI and...
Summing Up The Week The markets continue to look for any metric that might indicate the Federal Reserve could begin cutting interest rates soon which means we’re still very much in the “bad news is good news” approach to catalysts. Monday’s...
