Summing Up The Week It’s kind of funny how the stock market works: when everyone knows an event is coming up, the market prices in wild price swings, and, sometimes, when the event happens and it’s exactly what everyone expected, there’s no move at...
Summing Up The Week The shortened trading week was looking pretty good for the bulls as stocks shook off tariff fears, Fed minutes which showed no interest rate cuts for now, and a number of other negative catalysts. The S&P 500 just kept popping up by a +0.25%...
Summing Up The Week While the Federal Reserve prefers to look at the Personal Core Expenditures (PCE) index as a gauge of inflation, the rest of the market also pays attention to the Producer Price Index (PPI) and Consumer Price Index (CPI) with the latter taking more...
Summing Up The Week In my 26 years investing in the stock market, I’ve seen some absolutely crazy things from the dot-com crash to the near destruction of global financial markets during the Great Financial Crisis. However, as horrible as the negative catalysts...
Summing Up The Week The markets finally seemed to realize that the presidential election is coming up in a matter of days which brought volatility into stocks over the past week. Rising 10-year treasury yields gave the S&P 500 and Nasdaq three days of relentless...
