Stocks rallied in the immediate aftermath of Friday’s dismal jobs report, with the S&P500 jumping 0.5% to an all-time high of 6,532 when the market opened at 9:30AM. While this gain faded to a loss by the end of the day, the initial surge can only be rationalized in one way: investors bought stocks in the hope that weak economic data would force the Fed ... Show More
Nov 17
Why a 1:13 expansion feels like a 1:20 recession
<p>In our age of overwhelming technological progress, I still cling to the simpler practices of my youth. I read books rather than tablets, write with an ink pen in cursive rather than text with my thumbs, and attempt to use mental arithmetic, rather than a calculator, in solving ... Show More
11m 9s
Nov 3
The Importance of Navigation in the Dark
<p id="ember886" class="ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph">I was rewatching Apollo 13 over the weekend - a fabulous movie, by the way, if you’ve never seen it - about how, in 1970, three astronauts returned safely to Earth following an explosion on their spacecraft, two day ... Show More
11m 48s
Oct 27
Oil, Inflation and the Fed: The Slide and the Rollercoaster
<p>This quarter, we dropped the oil page from our Guide to the Markets.</p>
<p>There are always exactly 65 pages in the Guide, so when we want to add a page, we have to get rid of one. The process is, unfortunately, democratic, so when my younger colleagues wanted to add pages il ... Show More
9m 34s
Dec 2024
BREAKING NEWS: Dow Plunges 1,100 Points: First 10-Day Losing Streak Since 1974
The U.S. central bank reduced its overnight borrowing rate by a quarter point to a target range of 4.25% to 4.5%, as expected.
However, new quarterly forecasts showed several officials penciled in fewer rate cuts for next year than they estimated just a few months ago, and saw in ... Show More
5m 51s
Aug 2024
The Dividend Cafe Wednesday - August 28, 2024
<p>Midweek Market Recap and NVIDIA Earnings Breakdown - August 28, 2023</p>
<p>In this episode of Dividend Cafe, Brian Szytel discusses the performance of the stock market on a relatively uneventful day, with the Dow dropping 159 points, the S&P 500 down by 0.6%, and the NASD ... Show More
3m 45s
Mar 2025
Stocks Wrap Up Volatile Week… And Dissecting The Tech Wreck 3/7/25
<p>Stocks bouncing back Friday after a very volatile week. The S&P posting its worst week since September as a weak jobs report, Fed comments, and more tariff headlines rock markets. So will the volatility continue? And A take on Tech, as Meta erases nearly all of its record rall ... Show More
43m 45s
Aug 2024
What to expect after the global stock market slump
<p>A global market sell-off kicked off the week, marking the biggest sell-off in decades.</p>
<p>Japan’s Nikkei started things off, dropping 12 per cent, which was the index’s worst day since the Black Monday crash of 1987. Following this, the rest of the world followed suit.</p> ... Show More
13m 45s
Feb 2020
Understanding This Week’s Market Whiplash, Featuring Scott Melker
After weeks of not reacting to Coronavirus, the markets took a profound turn for the worse this week, leading ultimately to the fastest correction - i.e. loss of 10% - in recorded history.
In this episode of The Breakdown, @NLW is joined by crypto trader, DJ, and broad market t ... Show More
24m 2s