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...

Stocks Soar Despite Inflation Spike: A New Bull Market? 

William Walsh
Friday was a pretty good day on Wall Street. All the major indexes posted gains, volume was down from Thursday’s level but above average and pretty ...

Senate Testimony: A Circus Act on Economics

William Walsh
So, you didn’t have to, we watched Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s testimony before the United States Senate yesterday. Well, we watched ...

Mixed Signals: Markets at All-Time Highs Despite Weakening Labor Market 

William Walsh
It was more of the same over the 4th of July holiday shortened week on Wall Street.  The indexes were mixed but the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ Composite...

Inflation Stalls? Don't Celebrate Yet - Why the Fed Should Stay the Course

William Walsh
The Consumer Price Index for May came in better than expected yesterday. We’ll get into the specifics in just a moment but suffice it to say that th...

Confusing Signals: Strong Jobs Report Tanks Stocks as Investors Fear the Fed

William Walsh
Over the last six months or so, good economic news has often spelled bad news for the stock market and, just as often, bad news was good news. As we...

Good News is Bad News: The Stock Market Rallies Despite Strong Economic Data

William Walsh
Good news is bad news.” Here at the Ministry of Truth, those are words to live by. We’ve always been at war with good news. On Thursday, we got ...

Weak Economic Data: The Federal Reserve In a Corner

William Walsh
Thursday was a busy day on the economic calendar and all of the data that was released—all of it—pointed to a weakening economy. Nothing but red n...

The Financial Animal Asks: Is This Bull Market Running on Empty?

William Walsh
Volume fell yet again on Friday, and this time it fell to the lowest point since January and to one of the lowest levels in years. We’ll include a l...

Is Stagflation Lurking? The Buzz on Business Examines Friday's Jobs Report

William Walsh
Friday’s employment report came in well below expectations. We’ll get into the details in just a minute but the stock and bond markets celebrated ...
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