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...
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Summing Up The Week The market spent the week whipsawing on every news catalyst, initially seeing a negative reaction to the move in the yen, Japan’s weakened currency, then popping on the back of the Fed’s dovish comments only to give it all back at the...
