Buzz on Business

A Bad Day for Stocks: Worst Week of 2024

William Walsh
A bad, bad day on Friday put the bow on a bad, bad week for stocks. Again, fears of economic weakness in the face of some disappointing economic and l...

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...

Market Correction Looms: Is NVIDIA the Culprit?

William Walsh
The Buzz on Business for September 5th, 2024 Stocks showed more weakness again on Wednesday although the session was not nearly as bad as was Tuesday...

From Solar Panels to Soybeans: The True Impact of U.S. Tariffs 

William Walsh
Tariffs, and protectionism more broadly, are always promoted as advancing the interests of US companies and US jobs. These are stated as axiomatic, as...

Why Tariffs and Price Controls Are Economic Pitfalls: A Financial Animal's Perspective

William Walsh
Last week, we spent some time on this podcast looking at and disagreeing with Vice President Kamala Harris’ economic plan, specifically, her plan to...

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...

PPI Report Delivers: Stocks Soar, Bond Yields Fall 

William Walsh
The business, financial, economic or stock market story that has dominated our collective consciousness over the last year has not been the labor mark...

Is the Market Taking a Vacation? Inflation Numbers Could Change That

William Walsh
Stocks finished mixed but mostly little changed again on Monday, on volume that was as low as we’ve seen for any non-holiday session in a very long ...

Jobless Claims Jitters: Don't Be Fooled by the Headlines

William Walsh
A good day for stocks was supposedly sparked by economic reports released Thursday morning that supposedly were good news and that supposedly showed t...

Market Jitters: Another Day, Another Downturn

William Walsh
The Buzz on Business for August 8th, 2024 Stocks opened higher—substantially higher—on Wednesday, they quickly rallied above and beyond Tuesday’...

The Sahm Rule: A New Recession Indicator or Just Noise?

William Walsh
The US economy coughed on Friday, the Japanese and Korean stock markets caught a cold and then at 9:30 AM ET yesterday, what had been a not all that u...
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