Week in Review #132

Week in Review #132

Summing Up The Week While there’s always plenty of news in the markets, the key takeaway this week was the rising 10-Year Treasury Bond yield, which hit a one-year high of 1.49% on Thursday.  Do the bond yields signal the end of the Bull Market in stocks? Read...
Speculation in Play #110

Speculation in Play #110

 February 12, 2021   Risk Disclaimer The positions in this portfolio are incredibly risky and extremely volatile.   No one at Get Irked is a professional financial adviser (or a doctor), so consult with your own financial adviser to see if any of these positions...
Week in Review #130

Week in Review #130

Summing Up The Week Even with record deficits and unemployment continuing to slam the U.S. economy, the stock market rocketed to all-new highs across all of the major indexes including the Dow Jones Index (DJI), the NASDAQ Composite (IXIC), the S&P 500 (SPX), and...
Week in Review #129

Week in Review #129

Summing Up The Week After last week’s brief hiccup to the downside thanks to retail traders squeezing shorts in stocks like GameStop (GME) and AMC Movie Theaters (AMC) combined with a failed attempt to send up the price of silver, the institutions retaliated in...
Week in Review #128

Week in Review #128

Summing Up The Week The week kicked off with several disturbing news reports about the extremely high valuations of the stock market in combination with stock activity last seen right before the dot-com burst in early 2001. A precarious selloff on Wednesday was...