by cowts_admin | Aug 7, 2023 | Stock Market Recap
After weeks of upward stock price bias, last week was a pullback beginning with the start of August on Tuesday and continuing throughout the week. News during the week was mixed: more strong employment numbers – but not so good that investors worried about another...
by cowts_admin | Jul 31, 2023 | Stock Market Recap
Once again, don’t be fooled by the major indexes, which all showed impressive rises on the week owing to the influence of just a few mega-stocks. Actual stock performance in the broad market was very mixed, with about equal numbers declining as advancing. This...
by cowts_admin | Jul 25, 2023 | Stock Market Recap
A choppy week as investors with very divergent opinions battled each other daily. One group anticipates a severe recession looms on collapse of real estate values, thus they are selling stocks now, while the other group of investors assumes a “soft landing” for the...
by cowts_admin | Jul 18, 2023 | Stock Market Recap
The prior week’s Friday rally on tame employment data (“good” – for the economy, but not “too good” – as to trigger more interest rate increases) continued as prices rose modestly throughout the week. The only hiccup was some profit-taking on Friday by the same...
by cowts_admin | Jul 10, 2023 | Stock Market Recap
A choppy week for stock prices that revolved around investor reaction to employment reports. In the end, a net down week for prices although a Friday rally lessened the declines. Downward movement really took off on Thursday when a popular private employment report...
by cowts_admin | Jul 3, 2023 | Stock Market Recap
Stocks rallied off of the prior week’s decline, proving once again that amateur investors who took profits at lower prices the prior week were wrong to do so (again). Amateur investors are notoriously bad at market timing, because they either lack a consistent...
