Summing Up The Week The week was quite volatile with the market swinging both directions thanks to a spate of both good and bad news, kicking off the week with a bit of a selloff and switching to a rally when manufacturing and potential COVID-19 treatments made...
Black Lives Matter While I try to stick closely to the matters affecting the markets on Get Irked, the horrific murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and so many other black Americans combined with the mistreatment of minorities in the United States...
Summing Up The Week After whistling past the graveyard last week and Monday this week, the markets finally woke up on Tuesday with the release of negative health commentary and terrible economic data reports combining with jittery state economy reopenings. The market...
Summing Up The Week Historic job losses, Warren Buffett sees no bargains, and lots of other negative news, yet the market rocketed higher this week. Even Bitcoin broke back through the $10,000 resistance mark (if only momentarily). Confused? Don’t be. Read on to...
Summing Up The Week Following its worst week since 1931, the markets rallied to have their best week since 2008 this week. That’s little solace for investors as the markets are still nearly -25% off their highs. Let’s look at the news that moved the...
