Last Week “Wake Me Up When September Ends” is a song from Green Day’s 2004 “American Idiot” album. It also captures the mood of investors following brutal holiday-shortened trading, in which the market suffered its worst first week of September since 1946. The...
Last Week As the lyrics go in the Grateful Dead’s classic tune U.S. Blues, “Summertime done, come and gone, my, oh, my.” Stock market investors waved the rally flag wide and high as the market continued its long trip to higher ground. The most recent gains overcame...
Last Week “Tell it to me slowlyTell you whatI really want to knowIt's the time of the season for (loving) cutting interest rates”Mash up of Zombies (1968) and Chairman Powell (2024) After several months of resolute statements by many Federal Reserve leaders that maybe...
Last Week Early in August, the combination of soft economic data and a stubbornly hawkish-sounding Fed stirred fear in investors of a recession or “hard landing.” A flurry of data since then has reinforced the not-too-hot and not-too-cold Goldilocks scenario, sent...
Last Week It was the worst of times on Monday and the best of times on Thursday, with wild swings that left equities slightly lower by the closing bell on Friday. The selling pressure from the end of the previous week, following the hawkish Fed meeting and soft...
Last Week The investor sentiment pendulum swung dramatically from the Greed pole to the Fear pole, triggered by another dose of soft economic data combined with stubbornly unresponsive Fedspeak from the FOMC statement and news conference. Despite solid corporate...
Last Week Market participants enjoyed an across-the-board rally on Friday to end a wild week in which the primary theme was the rotation out of tech stocks and into small caps. The damage for tech investors all came on Wednesday following earnings reports the previous...
Last Week As the number of 2Q24 earnings reports picked up last week, the financial markets seemed keenly aware that “Twisters,” the sequel to the 1996 cult-classic tornado-chasers “Twister,” debuted last week, as the recent rotation out of technology stocks continued...
Last Week It’s been a long and winding road to the place where small caps and other non-magnificent stocks found the answer to the “when will I be loved” refrain. If last Thursday’s market action is any indicator, perhaps that love has finally blossomed. Remarks from...
Last Week Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss. The S&P 500 kicked off the second half of 2024 with its best weekly performance in 8 weeks. Once again, however, the rally was driven by the same boss, Mr. Big Tech (not Bruce Springsteen). The S&P jumped...