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...
Dec 20, 2024
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...
Dec 13, 2024
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...
Nov 15, 2024
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...