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It was a pretty much sell everything type of day for the markets. After a nice positive opening, stocks gave up early gains and plunged decisively into

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Today’s jobs number came in much better than expected with 130,000 new jobs created in January vs. the 55,000 expected by analysts. The unemployment

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Stocks were mixed today, but after some early strength it felt like the bulls simply ran out of gas. The Dow continues to post a record high on a daily

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Given Friday’s exuberance, it would not have been a surprise to see stocks take a breather today, but for the most part the bulls were able to add to

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It was quite a day for the market averages as the Dow, the S&P and the Nasdaq all posted gains of more than 2%. Despite disappointing post earnings

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It was definitely a risk off trading session. Stocks down, metals down, crypto down. It’s possible that the collapse happening in bitcoin and other

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It was a mixed bag for the market averages. The Dow moved up nicely while the Nasdaq struggled. Some big losses in some of the chip names sent the tech

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We had a winner and a loser from yesterday’s earnings releases. Meta (Facebook) was today’s winner while Microsoft was today’s loser. Meta’s report wasn

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