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 The week started flat until Tuesday’s report hinting inflation might not be dead, yet, sent the markets reeling… for a single day. On Wednesday, the buy-the-dippers came out in force and the markets felt as if nothing was wrong....
Summing Up The Week The markets kept chugging along for the majority of the week until a sudden, inexplicable reversal on Wednesday, where a day that saw a gain of +0.20% on the S&P 500 (SPX) intraday suddenly reversed about 90 minutes before the market close and...
Summing Up The Week With this week’s volatile price action in the markets, I felt it might be a good time to remind myself of my key rule: As long term investors, it’s more important to have disciplined strategies than bullish or bearish narratives. The question...
Summing Up The Week The stock market was choppy but overall showed very limited movement throughout this week, likely due to the end of the month, end of the second quarter, and end of the first half of the year all coinciding together. Many investment firms need to...
