Summing Up The Week The relief rally that started last week continued throughout this week with markets shrugging off war in the Middle East along with higher-than-expected inflation readings. Believe it or not, this kind of price action falls right in line with the...
Summing Up The Week Slowly at first, then all at once… Weeks with Federal Reserve meetings tend to be incredibly dull up until the Wednesday announcement of the Fed decision and this week was no different. This kind of slow price action makes sense intuitively:...
Summing Up The Week While a shortened trading week thanks to the Labor Day holiday, the return of trading volume to the markets brought with it the seasonal volatility I’ve been warning about for the past weeks. Markets sold off in all sectors on very little...
Summing Up The Week The seasonal volatility of August refuses to let up as the market threw a whole bunch of mixed messages this week. From deflation in China to a strong U.S. consumer combined with a Bitcoin crash of epic proportions… it was quite the week!...
Summing Up The Week August is a seasonally volatile month for markets and the first full week of trading for the month confirmed everyone’s expectations – volatility has certainly returned. A smattering of different macroeconomic and microeconomic news...
