Jul 19, 2024
Summing Up The Week After four years of basically being able to ignore commentary from the White House, this week reminded me of the power of ex-President Donald Trump’s rhetoric on the markets. With positive news coming out early in the week, the stock market...
Jul 5, 2024
Summing Up The Week Despite weakening economic signals and even a unemployment, stocks shrugged off any negativity and continued to rally in a big way over the past week. Even companies who had been beaten down for weeks got back on their horses with Tesla (TSLA)...
Jun 28, 2024
Summing Up The Week The economic datapoints for the week came in fairly in-line, not causing much of a market reaction in either direction as stocks continued to grind higher. The real market-moving catalyst was Thursday’s Presidential Debate, where President...
Jun 14, 2024
Summing Up The Week Could the Federal Reserve actually pull of a “Soft Landing?” It’s certainly starting to look that way. With last week’s jobs report showing rising unemployment potentially indicating a cooling economy, and both the CPI and...
May 31, 2024
Summing Up The Week While many think the tried-and-true stock market adage is “Sell in May and Go Away” due to professional traders going on vacation for the summer, the original quote was actually “Buy in May and Make Some Hay.” While the...