Bitcoin tests the Greater Fool Theory
Wall Street rebounded from last week's retreat with a nearly 2% advance over the last five days, and the S&P 500 is now only 0.8% from its record intraday high. It was a week marked by steady gains, geopolitical tensions arising from developments in the ongoing...
Avoiding Reversal
Wall Street posted its worst weekly performance since the start of September, and has now notched a negative week in three of the last four. Slightly hot consumer and producer inflation data, along with a comment from Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell on Thursday...
A Felon in the White House
One of the most pivotal weeks of the year turned out to be records galore for Wall Street - the S&P smashing past the 6,000 point level in a historic first. The Dow Jones Industrial Average notched its 41st and 42nd record close of the year while also taking out...
Entering a November like no other
Wall Street's bull run took another hit this week, due to a mixed bag of quarterly results from Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Apple, and Amazon. Investors were unhappy with Microsoft's soft Azure cloud revenue growth guidance and Meta's heavy artificial...
A slow grind amidst mixed messages
The S&P halted its longest weekly win streak of the year, the Dow Jones slumped for the week, while the Nasdaq got a boost from Tesla. The S&P and Dow were dragged down by disappointing quarterly performances from industrial giants such as GE, 3M, Honeywell,...
Earnings Blowout?
The benchmark S&P 500 index on Friday notched a six-week win streak, its longest weekly advance of 2024. It also notched its 46th and 47th record close of the year. Meanwhile, it was a historic week for the Dow Jones Industrial Average which surpassed the 43,000...
Market is flashing 21-21-21
Wall Street on Friday posted a five-week win streak for the first time since May. The benchmark S&P 500 crossed and ended above the 5,800 points level in a historic first, while the Dow is fast approaching the 43,000 points milestone. Despite Middle East...
Consumer is king
Friday's payrolls report showed the addition of 254K jobs in the U.S. in September, significantly higher than the 132K consensus. The data pointed to strong hiring in the labor market and led to investors dialing back their expectations for another large 50 basis...
There is no alternative (TINA)
The S&P 500 fell marginally on Friday but ended higher for the week after recording gains in three out of five sessions aided by strong macro data. The Dow Jones Industrial Average posted its 32nd record close for the year on Friday as the latest inflation data...