Sep 13, 2024
Summing Up The Week After last week’s selling rout into the weekend, investors didn’t quite know what to expect when this week kicked off. Fortunately, investors came in and bought the dip on Monday, and, while Wednesday looked particularly treacherous...
Sep 6, 2024
Summing Up The Week The stock market always looks for a reason to sell in September and it didn’t have to wait long with disappointing manufacturing news on Tuesday. The labor market didn’t have anything good to say, either, with job openings falling more...
Aug 30, 2024
Summing Up The Week Stocks spent the first three days of the week waffling between slight gains and slight losses while market participants waited Nvidia’s (NVDA) earnings after the close on Wednesday. Nvidia did beat both the quarter and raised guidance…...
Aug 9, 2024
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,...
Aug 2, 2024
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...
