Buzz on Business

Mixed Market, Mixed Signals: Navigating the September Effect 

William Walsh
Stocks were again mostly lower on Thursday, a bit of a rebound in the large cap tech stocks kept the NASDAQ out of the red for the day.  Fears of ec...

Downward Revision: The Biggest Job Growth Blunder in 20 Years

William Walsh
On Wednesday of this week, the US Labor Department revised its calculation for the number of new jobs created in the twelve months ending in March of ...

Inflation, Markets, and Manufacturing and the VP Harris Inflation Plan 

William Walsh
We studiously avoid politics on the Buzz on Business podcast, and we do this for a couple of reasons. First, it’s a divisive topic and we aim to uni...

Market Lull and Economic Heat: A Summer Snapshot

William Walsh
Friday was a boring day in the markets. Stocks finished mixed but little changed. Especially compared to the dramatic moves we’ve seen lately. Volum...

Economic Jitters Send Stocks Plunging: What's Next?

William Walsh
Stocks sold off, hard, from open to close on Thursday, in one of the biggest daily declines in over a year. It was brutal. But in a market that has be...

Fed Meeting, Earnings Season, and Economic Reports: A Week to Watch

William Walsh
The inflation data released on Friday came in pretty much as expected and, to us, appears to set the table for rate cuts, perhaps as soon as this Wedn...

Flatline Friday: The Market Stalls Despite Good News

William Walsh
Another meandering, listless, inconclusive session Friday on Wall Street. It seems to us that whatever leadership had been supplied by NVIDIA and the ...

Bull Market Exhaustion? Why This Rally May Be Running on Fumes

William Walsh
Stocks rallied on Monday, and in some cases to new all-time highs. We’ll go over all the numbers in just a minute. But normally when stocks rally, e...

Oil Prices Plunge on OPEC Production Hike

William Walsh
The all-new bad news is bad news narrative continues to take hold on Wall Street. We’ll get to the numbers in just a few minutes but weakness in the...

Hope vs. Reality: Can the Stock Market Keep Rallying Without a Fed Rate Cut?

William Walsh
Wall Street has been wishing and hoping for a rate cut from the Federal Reserve, probably since rates started heading up in March of 2022. Those hopes...

Mixed Signals: Markets Down, Earnings Up - What's Going On?

William Walsh
When we see a dramatic move in the markets, we can typically guess the cause, especially when that move comes in the overnight session. Before the ope...

Fed Rate Cuts in 2024? Don't Hold Your Breath, But Here's What To Watch Now

William Walsh
The Producer Price Index complex, which measures inflation at the wholesale level, came in a tick better than expected Thursday morning. More on that ...
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