Jul 2, 2020
Summing Up The Week Even with a shortened trading week thanks to Independence Day, the markets kicked off the week in a big way as COVID-19 news flooded in over the weekend thanks to another record number of new cases on Friday. Despite the negative numbers, the...
Jun 26, 2020
Summing Up The Week While the markets were distracted for a moment on Monday night after a senior advisor to the president claimed the China Trade deal “was over,” the miscommunication was resolved and the markets refocused their attention on coronavirus...
Jun 19, 2020
Summing Up The Week The week was quite volatile with the market swinging both directions thanks to a spate of both good and bad news, kicking off the week with a bit of a selloff and switching to a rally when manufacturing and potential COVID-19 treatments made...
Jun 12, 2020
Black Lives Matter While I try to stick closely to the matters affecting the markets on Get Irked, the horrific murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and so many other black Americans combined with the mistreatment of minorities in the United States...
Jun 5, 2020
Summing Up The Week The country is in turmoil – civil unrest rages nationwide, unemployment is at near-Great Depression levels, and, oh yeah, there’s still an unbelievably deadly and extremely contagious virus running rampant throughout the globe. So, what...