Buzz on Business

Jerome Powell in La La Land: Inflation Soars While the Fed Fiddles

William Walsh
Over the course of the last six months or so, we have openly worried about the future course of inflation. In an episode in November, we pointed out t...

Bullish Market, Bearish Volume: Stocks Climb But Should You Be Worried?

William Walsh
Stocks moved moderately higher on Thursday and closed at or near their highs for the day as advancers led decliners by a respectable two-to-one. But v...

Wall Street Cries Wolf? Why You Shouldn't Base Your Investments on Fearmongering

William Walsh
We read an interesting paper with an interesting premise on Tuesday. Entitled “Either Stocks or Bonds Are Wrong”—we’ll put a link below—the ...

Rare Market Divergence: Is a Big Change Coming?

William Walsh
We often report, here on the Buzz on Business, that “markets finished mixed.” Meaning one or more of the major indexes on which we regularly repor...

Is the Economic Expansion Over? The Financial Animal Raises Concerns

William Walsh
Stocks finished mostly lower on Thursday and now have given up all of their gains since at least mid-February and since peaking on April 1st. Declines...

Inflation Numbers Met Expectations, But Are Still Too High: Financial Animal

William Walsh
The inflation numbers came in on Friday and came in just about as expected. We’ll have more on that in a minute. But markets were closed, and we cou...

Ministry of Truth in Overdrive: Decoding the 21-Week Stock Rally

William Walsh
If this rally, now in its 21st week, which has seen the Standard and Poor’s 500 increase by almost 25%, is premised on the idea that inflation has b...

S&P 500 and NASDAQ Hit New Highs, but Labor Market Report on Tap

William Walsh
A new all-time high for the Standard and Poor's 500 index. A new all-time high for the NASDAQ Composite. But volume was down, and the labor market rep...

Fed Testimony Fallout: Understanding Wall Street’s Reaction

William Walsh
There is an old Wall Street maxim that says, “Don’t fight the Fed.” It means that if the Fed is tightening, if rates are rising, if the punch bo...

Markets Rally Despite Some Gloomy Economic News: Should You Be Worried?

William Walsh
Markets opened higher yesterday morning after the release of the inflation report but ground lower throughout most of the day, only to rally into the ...

Dow Jones Swaps Walgreens for Amazon: Modernization or Manipulation?

William Walsh
Magnificent Seven member Amazon entered the Dow Jones Industrial Average at the opening bell on Monday, taking the place of Walgreens Boots Alliance, ...

NVIDIA Drives Market Rally: AI Revolution Real, But Not a Hype-Driven Bubble

William Walsh
It has become apparent to us here at the Buzz on Business that the Artificial Intelligence revolution, which we see all around us, is analogous to the...

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