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It was a quiet start to this holiday shortened trading week. With no glaring headlines to deal with, market participants were mostly uninterested in
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Stocks tried to push higher at various intervals during today’s trading session, but in the end some traders were just not comfortable holding into the 3
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Both yesterday’s CPI data and today’s PPI data were hotter than expected. Yesterday, bonds did sell off, but they rallied today. Stocks didn’t seem
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Watching Fed Chair Powell testify before the Senate Banking Committee this morning, I concluded that they should just put a cardboard cutout of the
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This morning’s jobs data was a bit of a mixed bag. Non-farm payrolls came in at 143,000 vs. the 170,000 analysts expected, while the unemployment rate
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It was another mixed day for stocks with the Nasdaq and S&P 500 posting modest gains while the Dow moved lower. After the close we get an earnings report
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Despite a disappointing earnings release from Google after the close yesterday, stocks found their footing today and were mostly able to move higher
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Stocks mainly traded higher today with the market averages adding different percentage gains across the board. Tariff talk continues to be front and
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In what is likely to become the norm for a while, it was another wildly volatile day for the markets. Tariff declarations sent stocks tumbling at the
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Similar to yesterday, stocks were doing just fine until word out of the White House was that tariffs are on (25%) for February 1st for both Canada and
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Stocks were calmly higher for much of today’s trading session when in the last hour reports of tariffs on Canada and Mexico erased the gains and left the
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As expected, the Fed kept interest rates the same with the Fed Funds rate remaining at 4.25%-4.50%. Fed Chair Powell seemed to indicate that the Fed is