Mar 7, 2025
Summing Up The Week I still find it crazy the number of market participants who claim the stock market was not volatile during President Donald Trump’s first term in office. The day-to-day volatility was particularly insane when Trump kicked off the trade war...
Feb 7, 2025
Summing Up The Week It only took a few weeks for stock market participants to remember President Donald Trump’s “amazing” negotiation tactics from his first term. Initially, stocks sold off Monday morning on the back of Trump threatening massive...
Jan 31, 2025
Summing Up The Week As if the week didn’t have enough ahead of it with all of the earnings reports and the Fed Meeting, a little-known Chinese startup called DeepSeek kicked off the week by terrifying the entire market. DeepSeek made everyone think China had...
Jan 17, 2025
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...
Jan 10, 2025
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....
