Nov 1, 2024
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...
Sep 27, 2024
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...
Aug 23, 2024
Summing Up The Week As many analysts expected, it was a quiet week in stocks for the first half, however, on Thursday, investors got jittery going into the Federal Reserve meeting in Jackson Hole and caused the stock market to sell off a bit with the S&P 500 down...
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...
Jul 26, 2024
Summing Up The Week If you haven’t believed me when I’ve been saying “volatility’s back” the past two weeks, I’m betting you believe me now! Once Alphabet (GOOGL) and Tesla (TSLA) disappointed on earnings, that was enough of a spark...
