Nov 1, 2024
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...
Oct 11, 2024
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...
Sep 27, 2024
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...
Sep 6, 2024
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...
Aug 9, 2024
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,...
