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...

Breaking Down the September Effect: Do Stocks Stumble in Fall? Why? 

William Walsh
Today is the first trading day of September so perhaps we ought to discuss a phenomenon known as the September Effect.  Of the twelve months of the ...

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 ...

The Economics of Price Controls and Subsidies: A Proven Recipe for Higher Costs

William Walsh
If you place a ceiling on the price of a good or service, below the clearing price, you get a shortage of that good or service. A shortage results in ...

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...

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...

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 Carry Trade Unravels: A Deeper Look Behind the Market Selloff

William Walsh
As a general rule, we are disinclined to monocausal explanations of economic or financial developments. The economy and markets are complex, chaotic s...

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...

Intel's Meltdown: A Cautionary Tale for Investors

William Walsh
In 2002, or thereabouts, I began working with a client who owned something like $1.5 million of stock in Intel, which was, at the time, the largest ch...

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...
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