Summing Up The Week Despite plenty of potentially market-moving news this week, traders and investors were all about the Federal Reserve Bank’s annual conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, even though the conference was virtual this year due to COVID. Let’s...
Summing Up The Week A combination of declining consumer sentiment, a Federal Reserve plan which includes tapering this year, and increasing COVID fears across the country caused the markets to pull back this week. Is there more in store? Let’s look at the news...
***It’s Get Irked’s 3-Year Anniversary!!!*** Summing Up The Week Can you believe it’s been three years since I started Get Irked?! Time really does fly when you’re having fun! Three years ago on August 8, 2018, I decided to set up a website...
Summing Up The Week A relatively quiet week in the markets despite Congress missing the debt-ceiling deadline and a disappointing jobs report from ADP. The government jobs report, however, dramatically overshadowed the outlier report from ADP which may have resulted...
Summing Up The Week The rise of the delta variant of COVID resulted in a particularly nervous market this week. While the indexes did regain their losses, the unstable nature of the selling pressure may be showing an undercurrent of a market ready to roll over and...