Summing Up The Week The stock market always looks for a reason to sell in September and it didn’t have to wait long with disappointing manufacturing news on Tuesday. The labor market didn’t have anything good to say, either, with job openings falling more...
Summing Up The Week I started Get Irked six years ago on August 6, 2018 with the intention of helping investors with their investing journey by discussing my successes and failures. Since then, it’s been an exciting ride with more than a thousand blog entries,...
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...
Summing Up The Week Despite weakening economic signals and even a unemployment, stocks shrugged off any negativity and continued to rally in a big way over the past week. Even companies who had been beaten down for weeks got back on their horses with Tesla (TSLA)...
Summing Up The Week The markets continue to look for any metric that might indicate the Federal Reserve could begin cutting interest rates soon which means we’re still very much in the “bad news is good news” approach to catalysts. Monday’s...
