The Past Week in the Markets

It was a white knuckled ride in the markets this holiday shortened week.  A sharp drop during the half day session on Monday was followed by a much bigger gain on Wednesday.  This left U.S. stocks with substantial gains for the week after declining for several weeks.  Still, even on good days, we saw market […]

The Past Week in the Markets

It was a perfect storm this week for the markets.  Traders threw a tantrum over the FEDs actions on Wednesday and as the week wore on, Washington moved towards a shutdown.  With this kind of volatility, stop losses and program trades exasperated the moves feeding on individual trader’s fears.  There may have been more program […]

The Past Week in the Markets

U.S. stocks ended the week lower but emerging markets had modest gains.  The main driver of the declines was concern about slowing global growth.  The European Central Bank is ending their bond buying program and has predicted slower growth next year.  The ECB was able to curb deflation and create modest inflation.  However, growth has […]

The Past Week in the Markets

U.S. stocks saw substantial gains this week while foreign stocks saw more modest gains.  There was a powerful rally on Wednesday following FED Chairman Powell’s comments that the FED has raised interest rates just below neutral and further rate hikes would be data dependent.  While one more quarter point hike is nearly certain in December, […]

The Past Week in the Markets

Stocks ended the holiday shortened week significantly lower with foreign stocks and small cap stocks declining less than U.S. large cap stocks as trade concerns weighed on the markets.  Volumes were very light on Friday’s shortened trading day.  The 10 year treasury yield fell to 3.08% and the dollar gained against a basket of currencies.  […]