It’s all about the interest rates…
The markets waited all week last week for Friday’s release of the April non-farm payrolls report. After the underperformance of the March numbers, all eyes were on it to divine which way we were trending. […]
Article, Did You Know, Michael Maehl
Economic Data
Week over week, in spite of some seemingly big moves during the past week, the markets were pretty much unchanged. The S&P 500, -0.44%; the Dow, -0.31% and the NASDAQ, -1.70%(1) Earnings have come in […]
Record setting week
Art Cashin has suggested that the market action of these past few weeks has been like commuting by roller coaster…lots of twist, turns, drops and climbs, after which you just wind up where you started. […]
Earnings confusion
While the three major market indicators all closed higher for the week, there wasn’t a lot of strength to the moves as the traders were waiting to see what the earnings for the various companies […]
Jobs – much ado about not much
In terms of results, and strictly from the perspective of where the indices settled the first quarter, there wasn’t much movement from year-end. S&P’s data banks related that the S&P 500 Index had an increase […]
