Summing Up The Week I started Get Irked six years ago on August 6, 2018 with the intention of helping investors with their investing journey by discussing my successes and failures. Since then, it’s been an exciting ride with more than a thousand blog entries,...
Summing Up The Week Volatility reached year-over-year highs this week as economic data and bad earnings slammed markets. Friday’s jobs report capped off the concerns with higher-than-expected unemployment triggering what’s called the Sahm Rule (read on to...
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...
