Week in Review #331

Week in Review #331

Summing Up The Week If you’ve read my blog from the beginning, you’ll remember I started Get Irked in August 2018. Little did I know what an exciting Christmas Eve we’d have back then. Then-President Donald Trump appointed Jerome Powell as Federal...
Week in Review #330

Week in Review #330

Summing Up The Week The S&P 500 traded within a range this week leaving no clear winners between the Bulls and the Bears. A series of mixed inflation reports and other differing economic data left many market participants wondering if we should just wait for the...
Week in Review #326

Week in Review #326

Summing Up The Week After the epic rally last week, the market spent much of this week taking a breather. The Bulls kept trying to push the indexes higher, but selling continued to keep stocks from rallying out of hand like they did last week. Let’s take a look...
Week in Review #324

Week in Review #324

Summing Up The Week The market was holding itself together until mixed earnings from Microsoft (MSFT) and the realization that the U.S. presidential election was mere days away sent stocks reeling on Thursday with the S&P 500 closing down more than 1.5% and the...
Week in Review #322

Week in Review #322

Summing Up The Week Just like September before it, October seems to be defying seasonality as stocks continued to rally this week. This week, the U.S. consumer remains resilient, earnings (particularly from banks) continue to come in strong, and news about nuclear...