Week in Review #329

Week in Review #329

Summing Up The Week The market rally continued over the past week with the S&P 500 making new all-time highs seemingly every day. Despite mixed economic and geopolitical datapoints which could have sent stocks higher, the combination of positive seasonality and...
Week in Review #324

Week in Review #324

Summing Up The Week The market was holding itself together until mixed earnings from Microsoft (MSFT) and the realization that the U.S. presidential election was mere days away sent stocks reeling on Thursday with the S&P 500 closing down more than 1.5% and the...
Week in Review #321

Week in Review #321

Summing Up The Week Stocks rallied for most of the week up until Thursday when worrying economic data came out both regarding inflation (in the form of the Consumer Price Index (CPI)) and the health of the labor market (in the form of bigger than expected initial...
Week in Review #319

Week in Review #319

Summing Up The Week Despite Tuesday’s consumer confidence survey falling the most in three years, stocks shrugged off the news and rallied. In fact, the S&P 500 made new intraday all-time highs nearly every single day regardless of whether stocks finished...
Week in Review #316

Week in Review #316

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...