Friends Well, that was quite a first quarter 2020. If it’s ok with you, I’d like to just fast forward to 2021. Ok, I guess that isn’t going to happen, so we’ll just have to get through all of this on a day by day basis. Obviously, stocks were...
Archive for month: March, 2020
Stocks Start Off The Week Higher
Friends Now that we all know that we’ll all be in our homes for a least another month, I guess we’re going to have to come up with new ways to entertain ourselves. I went out at lunchtime and started my car (hadn’t in 15 days). It still works....
Stocks Tumble But Still Up For The Week
Friends Amid a plethora of distressing headlines, stocks gave back much of yesterday’s gains in early trading. The bulls did try to mount a rally in the last hour of trading but it failed rather miserably. Stocks did end higher for the week, but it certainly felt like a...
Jobless Claims Jump But So Do Stocks
Friends As expected the weekly jobless claims number spiked. More than 3 million people applied for unemployment benefits this week, a number that is even bigger than expected. The good news might be that at least the system was able to file that many applications. Despite the shocking, but...
Two In A Row
Friends I was going to let you know how stocks soared for a second day in a row. For whatever reason, it’s just good to see stocks going up for a change, as it has been a difficult last few weeks. Well, stocks did go up some, but in...
Huge Stock Gains
Friends Finally, Congress has delivered an impressive piece of legislation for the U.S. citizens, designed to bridge the gap until we can restart the country. Wait a minute, I’m getting word that nothing has emerged yet from the Congress? Ok, there has been indications that they are close to...
Politics, The Fed and The Markets
Friends Phew, it’s a good thing that calmer heads prevailed, partisanship was put aside, and our folks on the hill were able to strike an historic deal and produce a heroic piece of legislation for the American people over the weekend. Wait, hold on, I’m hearing now, that did...
A Very Difficult Week Concludes
Friends It looked like stocks really wanted to go up today, but alas, it appeared that more liquidation was occurring, it was quadruple witching Friday, and basically investors were scared to buy much of anything heading into the weekend. As more and more forced shutdowns occur, the economic fallout...
A Little Better
Friends Despite an early morning appearance on CNBC by famed Hedge Fund Manager Ray Dalio in which he brought a significant helping of gloom and doom, markets did seem to find a little footing today. Now, the volatility was still amazing, but there appeared to be buyers for dips...
Stocks Tumble As Legendary Investors Grab Headlines
Friends Some legendary investors grabbed the headlines today. Bill Ackman tweeted this morning and then appeared on CNBC at lunchtime begging the President to shut down the country for 30 days. He’s concerned that governments just aren’t doing enough. Interestingly, even though he sounded the alarm, and was is...
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