Buzz on Business

NVIDIA's Fall: Why the Dow Soared While Everything Else Tanked

William Walsh
Regular listeners will know that we’ve taken note in recent weeks of divergences of note in the stock market. For example, we’ve seen:

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...

New High for the NASDAQ, But Why Did Other Indexes Fall?

William Walsh
Another new all-time high on the NASDAQ Composite masks a session of lassitude and indifference. The other indexes fell, in some cases dramatically, v...

Market Mystery: Record Highs for S&P & Nasdaq, But Dow Lags and Volume Dwindles

William Walsh
On May 17th, about a month ago, we all celebrated the fact that the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 40,000, for the first time. Just two day...

ADP vs. Payrolls: Will Today's Jobs Report Confirm Labor Market Weakness?

William Walsh
The labor market data that was released on Thursday before the opening bell was weak. We’ll go over all the numbers in just a minute, but we remain ...

Stock Market Sets New Highs as Bond Yields Fall: The Ministry of Truth Explains

William Walsh
ON THE FIRST DAY OF Financial Advisor school everyone learns that falling interest rates mean a weakening economy. That’s not really true. On the f...

The Battle Between Good News and Bad News: Why the Stock Market Can Be So Confusing

William Walsh
For some time now, we’ve taken note of the fact that good economic news is often bad news for the markets and vice versa. This is because, as the st...

We Blame Salesforce! The Financial Animal Gets it Wrong. Again!

William Walsh
While we didn’t come right out and say it, we implied and indeed believed, that if yesterday’s Core PCE came in, even one tick, below expectations...

Tech Buoys NASDAQ While Dow Falters - Mixed Market Signals Danger?

William Walsh
Maybe it’s just us, but divergences, of any kind, cause us to wonder. When two or more markets that typically move together, move in opposite direct...

The Financial Animal: 40 Years of Market Crashes and Why You Should Never Panic

William Walsh
New all-time closing highs for the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ Composite but none of the enthusiasm one might reasonably expect from such milestones. Volum...

Is 2% Growth the New Normal for the US Economy?

William Walsh
It was “Let’s All Give a Speech Day” at the Federal Reserve yesterday. At least six leaders of the US Central Bank gave speeches on Monday. As o...

Is the Market Wrong Again? The Financial Animal Raises Concerns About Inflation

William Walsh
At the Buzz on Business, we are fans of free markets. We do not hold that markets are perfect, by any means, just that they are better than all of the...

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