Week in Review #322

Week in Review #322

Summing Up The Week Just like September before it, October seems to be defying seasonality as stocks continued to rally this week. This week, the U.S. consumer remains resilient, earnings (particularly from banks) continue to come in strong, and news about nuclear...
Week in Review #320

Week in Review #320

Summing Up The Week What a wild week! From a Gulf Coast and East Coast port strike that was off as quickly as it was on to Iran’s counterattack on Israel to a nonfarm payrolls report that blew away expectations, there was no shortage of market-moving news this...
Week in Review #319

Week in Review #319

Summing Up The Week Despite Tuesday’s consumer confidence survey falling the most in three years, stocks shrugged off the news and rallied. In fact, the S&P 500 made new intraday all-time highs nearly every single day regardless of whether stocks finished...
Week in Review #317

Week in Review #317

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...
Week in Review #316

Week in Review #316

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...