Week in Review #345

Week in Review #345

Summing Up The Week The stock market volatility continued through the week thanks to President Donald Trump announcing new tariffs while offering mixed messaging on existing tariffs as well as the reciprocal tariffs he plans to put on next week on April 2, the day he...
Week in Review #343

Week in Review #343

Summing Up The Week President Donald Trump’s tariff tirade continued to cause the market to sell off dramatically early in the week with the S&P 500 down nearly 3% and the Nasdaq down 4% on Monday alone.  Even cooling inflation data did little to nothing to...
Week in Review #339

Week in Review #339

Summing Up The Week Inflation delaying the next Federal Reserve interest rate cut was the drumbeat of the news this week with both the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Producer Price Index (PPI) inflation gauges coming in hotter than expected. Federal Reserve Chairman...
Week in Review #337

Week in Review #337

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...
Week in Review #335

Week in Review #335

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...