Feb 14, 2025
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...
Jan 31, 2025
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...
Dec 27, 2024
Summing Up The Week Even after the sudden scare provided by Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s hawkish commentary, the seasonal “Santa Claus Rally” appeared to carry the stock market higher ahead of the holiday as investors and traders added to...
Dec 20, 2024
Summing Up The Week If you’ve read my blog from the beginning, you’ll remember I started Get Irked in August 2018. Little did I know what an exciting Christmas Eve we’d have back then. Then-President Donald Trump appointed Jerome Powell as Federal...
Nov 29, 2024
Summing Up The Week The stock market melt-up shows no signs of slowing, with the S&P 500 making new all-time highs once again over the holiday-shortened week. The week kicked off with the market loving President-Elect Donald Trump’s new pick for Treasury...
