Week in Review #53

Week in Review #53

Summing Up The Week Up until Friday, volatility had decreased substantially this week as the major market-moving event, the Federal Reserve Bank’s summit in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, wouldn’t yield any real fruit until the very end of the week on Friday when...
Week in Review #50

Week in Review #50

Summing Up The Week There are slow news weeks and then there are not-so-slow news weeks. And then there was this week – insane. Earnings, economic reports, and a “surprise” announcement from Trump that there are new China tariffs on the horizon...
Week in Review #47

Week in Review #47

Summing Up The Week With the G20 summit behind us, the markets remain focused on the Federal Reserve Bank, and this week had no shortage of that sort of news as Jerome Powell testified before Congress on Wednesday. The market indexes almost seemed to hold their breath...
Week in Review #46

Week in Review #46

Summing Up The Week The markets roared into Thursday’s Independence Day holiday thanks to a relatively positve result from the G-20 summit between Trump and President Xi where Trump promised no new tarriffs while also rolling back the ban against U.S. companies...
Week in Review #44

Week in Review #44

Summing Up The Week Sometimes, there’s so little news in the markets that nothing happens. This was not one of those weeks; there was almost too much news. From the G-20 to the Fed with new actors entering the fray in the form of Iran and an east coast gasoline...