Week in Review #231

Week in Review #231

Summing Up The Week As earnings season continued, the market was driven by two kinds of news this week: quarterly reports and anything related to the Fed. With the majority of news stories released this shortened holiday week leaning bearish, the hangover from the...
Week in Review #230

Week in Review #230

Summing Up The Week Despite extremely hawkish Fed comments kicking off the week, all three major stock indexes showed impressive bullish performance this week, rallying significantly all the way into Thursday’s CPI report before calming down… slightly. On...
Week in Review #229

Week in Review #229

Summing Up The Week The first few trading days of a new year seem to typically be filled with confusion about which way the market wants to go, and 2023 was certainly no different. The first two days saw flat performance, Thursday sold off, and Friday rallied....
Week in Review #226

Week in Review #226

Summing Up The Week The markets flew into the week with far too much bullish optimism only to have that hopeful outlook sliced and diced by a very hawkish Federal Reserve on Wednesday and weak economic figures later in the week. Let’s take a look at the news...
Week in Review #225

Week in Review #225

Summing Up The Week The markets seemed to finally wake up to reality this week. After last week’s rally on the back of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s interview where he said the Fed would likely hike less than 0.75% in the December meeting, it felt...