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 A series of datapoints that could indicate inflation is returning combined with the unexpected shortened trading week out of respect for the passing of President Jimmy Carter did nothing to help with the market’s newfound volatility....
Summing Up The Week If you’ve read my blog from the beginning, you’ll remember I started Get Irked in August 2018. Little did I know what an exciting Christmas Eve we’d have back then. Then-President Donald Trump appointed Jerome Powell as Federal...
Summing Up The Week The market rally continued over the past week with the S&P 500 making new all-time highs seemingly every day. Despite mixed economic and geopolitical datapoints which could have sent stocks higher, the combination of positive seasonality and...
Summing Up The Week The stock market melt-up shows no signs of slowing, with the S&P 500 making new all-time highs once again over the holiday-shortened week. The week kicked off with the market loving President-Elect Donald Trump’s new pick for Treasury...
