Week in Review #326

Week in Review #326

Summing Up The Week After the epic rally last week, the market spent much of this week taking a breather. The Bulls kept trying to push the indexes higher, but selling continued to keep stocks from rallying out of hand like they did last week. Let’s take a look...
Week in Review #324

Week in Review #324

Summing Up The Week The market was holding itself together until mixed earnings from Microsoft (MSFT) and the realization that the U.S. presidential election was mere days away sent stocks reeling on Thursday with the S&P 500 closing down more than 1.5% and the...
Week in Review #323

Week in Review #323

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...
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...