Aug 30, 2024
Summing Up The Week Stocks spent the first three days of the week waffling between slight gains and slight losses while market participants waited Nvidia’s (NVDA) earnings after the close on Wednesday. Nvidia did beat both the quarter and raised guidance…...
Aug 23, 2024
Summing Up The Week As many analysts expected, it was a quiet week in stocks for the first half, however, on Thursday, investors got jittery going into the Federal Reserve meeting in Jackson Hole and caused the stock market to sell off a bit with the S&P 500 down...
Aug 2, 2024
Summing Up The Week Volatility reached year-over-year highs this week as economic data and bad earnings slammed markets. Friday’s jobs report capped off the concerns with higher-than-expected unemployment triggering what’s called the Sahm Rule (read on to...
Jul 26, 2024
Summing Up The Week If you haven’t believed me when I’ve been saying “volatility’s back” the past two weeks, I’m betting you believe me now! Once Alphabet (GOOGL) and Tesla (TSLA) disappointed on earnings, that was enough of a spark...
Jul 19, 2024
Summing Up The Week After four years of basically being able to ignore commentary from the White House, this week reminded me of the power of ex-President Donald Trump’s rhetoric on the markets. With positive news coming out early in the week, the stock market...