December 28, 2019
December 21, 2019
12/20/19 Weekly Market Overview
The markets shrugged off the impeachment vote of the President closing the week with new records across all of the major market averages.
December 14, 2019
12/13/19 Weekly Market Overview
This was another week that delivered records on all of the major indexes. It was a big news week (with market implications) as a first China deal was announced, a Brexit related election happened, and it's the holiday and dividend time of year all had the markets jolly.
December 7, 2019
12/6/19 Weekly Market Overview
In spite of the large jump in the indexes on Friday, the major indexes ended the week mixed for the week ended 2019-12-06. The Dow Jones Industrial average ended the week at 28,015 a decline of 0.1%. The broader S&P 500 index ended the week at 3,146 an increase of 0.2%. The Nasdaq 100 ended the week at 8,397 a decline of 0.1%. The average change for the major averages was down 0.02%.
Novemver 30, 2019
11/29/19 Weekly Market Overview
This was a very light week with only 63 earnings releases and nothing major being discussed on the trade front but all of the major averages were up for the week.
Novemver 23, 2019
11/22/19 Weekly Market Overview
The major markets were all lower this week, largely due to further fluctuations in the China trade language/information. This was a light week in earnings, dominated by a few announcements from retailers.
Novemver 16, 2019
11/15/19 Weekly Market Overview
The major markets hit several records and several record closes this week on more anticipation of a China Trade deal as well as some good earnings reports and economic data. The Dow, S&P500 and Nasdaq are all up more than 20% year-to-date, find out more on what happened this week.
Novemver 9, 2019
11/8/19 Weekly Market Overview
Several major market indexes tallied records this week with all 3 major indexes notching gains for the week - with the DJIA up 1.2%, the S&P 500 up 0.9% and the Nasdaq increasing 1.2%, it was a strong week - but not across the board. Several sectors had bad weeks.
Novemver 2, 2019
11/1/19 Weekly Market Overview
The S&P broke into record territory this week with all three major indexes increasing this week. The Dow rose 1.7%, the S&P 500 rose 1.8% and the Nasdaq increased by 2.1%. Several big earnings announcements, a strong labor report as well as the 3rd rate cut of the year drove the markets higher this week.
October 26, 2019
10/25/19 Weekly Market Overview
The markets ended the week strong with all three major indexes increaseing for the week with earnings announcements from Amazon, Intel, Twitter and Boeing and of course China Trade ruling the indexes this week..
October 19, 2019
10/18/19 Weekly Market Overview
The week ended 10/18 was a fairly strong week with all 3 major indexes increasing, BUT, Dow component Boeing had a difficult end to the week. Earnings season started off strong, find out what earnings reports helped to drive the markets and what to expect this coming week.
October 13, 2019
10/11/19 Weekly Market Overview
The week ended 10/11 was largely up for the week with all 3 major indexes increasing by an average of 0.9%. The markets were lead by the Materials and Industrials sectors which increased by 1.59% and 1.49% respectively.
September 30, 2019
9/27/19 Weekly Market Overview
The week ended 9/27 was a down week for all of the major indexes with an average decline of 1.08%. The Real Estate and Consumer Staples sectors lead the market, increasing 1.24% and 1.19% respectively. The Healthcare sector was down by 3.37% in a very bad week and the Energy sector was off by 2.88%.
September 22, 2019
9/20/19 Weekly Market Overview
The week ended 9/20 was a down week for all of the major indexes with an average decline of 0.81%. The Utilities and Real Estate sectors lead the market, both having increases over 1.5%, but that was not enough to move the markets which digested some not-so-great news all week.
September 14, 2019
9/13/19 Weekly Market Overview
The week ended 9/13/19 was another positive week for the major indexes this past week. 8 of the 13 market sectors rose this week. Lots of chatter on the business/market networks last week about a potential shift from Momentum (or Growth) stocks to Value stocks. Not a trend yet, but we are watching.
September 7, 2019
9/6/19 Weekly Market Overview
The week ended 9/6/19 was a very strong week with all of the major averages increasing for the week and every sector increasing to close the week out. Much of the increase can be attributed to an announcement that the US and China will meet regarding the trade war in October. A new rate decision will be coming from the ECB next week with a further cut expected.
August 31, 2019
8/30/19 Weekly Market Overview
The week ended 8/30/19 was a very strong week with all of the major averages increasing for the week and every sector increasing at least 1.6%. There's still a lot of angst about the trade dispute with China with markets reacting to every statement, non-statement and tweet related to it for signs of a better or worse relationship with China. Everyone is also on the lookout for signs (or signs) or the feared coming recession.
August 24, 2019
8/23/19 Weekly Market Overview
The week ended 8/23/19 was another volatile week with all of the major indexes declining an average of 1.42%. The trade war with China weighed heavily on the markets at the end of the week with China and the US playing a tit-for-tat game with each upping tariffs on the others' products.
August 18, 2019
8/16/19 Weekly Market Overview
The week ended 8/16/19 ended with all three major indexes down by an average of 1.0% for the week.
June 2, 2019
5/31/19 Weekly Market Overview
The week ended 5/31/19 was another difficult week for the major indexes. The indexes averaged a decline for the week of 2.67% with the Dow Jones Industrial Average declining 3.01%, the S&P 500 Index declined 2.62% and the Nasdaq declined 2.37% for the week. Many ‘experts’ are crediting the potential escalation of the trade dispute
May 11, 2019
5/10/19 Weekly Market Overview
The week ended 5/10/19 was a tough week for all of the US stock market indexes. The 3 major indexes declined an average of 2.54% on fears of an escalation in the trade battle with China and the expansion of the tariffs on Chinese goods entering the US. The week ended with the Dow Industrials
May 5, 2019
5/3/19 Weekly Market Overview
The week was highlighted with Wednesday’s employment report from ADP and the BLS labor report on Friday. Both reports were good enough to push the unemployment rate down to the lowest level its been since the late 60s. The current unemployment rate is 3.6% after adding 263,000 jobs for the week. The employment reports pushed2020 Weekly Updates