Summing Up The Week While there were some significant earnings reports and data releases this week, the priority for the stock market was the Federal Reserve’s annual retreat in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, with Fed Chair Jerome Powell speaking on Friday. In other...
Summing Up The Week The market rallied throughout the majority of the week, and while it looked like it wanted to roll over on Wednesday, stocks seemed to recover during Thursday’s trading. Will this bull rally continue or are we do for a seasonal shock to the...
Summing Up The Week HAPPY 4TH BIRTHDAY TO GET IRKED! Can you believe that it’s been FOUR years since I started the Get Irked website?! Back then, it was just a young, fledgling investing website figuring out its way. Now, it’s an… older, fledgling...
Summing Up The Week Bad news still isn’t returning to being, well, bad news this week. After the markets saw an unbelievable rally (a one-day rise not seen in more than two years) following the Fed’s announcement that rate hikes may slow on Wednesday, the...
Summing Up The Week The market continued its rally from last week for the majority of this week on the back of cooling economic data. Now, that sounds counterintuitive, however, many analysts believe a cooling economy will mean that the Fed will take less severe...