Buzz on Business

Fed Meeting, Earnings Season, and Economic Reports: A Week to Watch

William Walsh
The inflation data released on Friday came in pretty much as expected and, to us, appears to set the table for rate cuts, perhaps as soon as this Wedn...

Market Rollercoaster: A Wild Ride from Green to Red 

William Walsh
The Buzz on Business for July 25th, 2024  After opening lower, stocks seemed poised to show some welcome strength after Wednesday’s rout. All t...

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 ...

Inflation Fears Ease, But Wild Market Swings Leave Financial Animal Bewildered

William Walsh
Yesterday, on this podcast, we prattled on about how the market had just broken out after a period of consolidation and then we took a victory lap on ...

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 ...

Flatline Friday: The Market Stalls Despite Good News

William Walsh
Another meandering, listless, inconclusive session Friday on Wall Street. It seems to us that whatever leadership had been supplied by NVIDIA and the ...

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...

Apple Soars, Analyst Who Downgraded it Looks Foolish (Again!)

William Walsh
Back in January, during fourth quarter earnings season, we questioned a report filed by some Wall Street analyst or other, who downgraded Apple stock ...

Fed on Hold: Will Economic Strength—or Weakness—Force its Hand This Week?

William Walsh
With all the labor market news moving stocks and bonds last week we entirely forgot that today is the start of two days of meetings of the Federal Res...

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...

Oil Prices Plunge on OPEC Production Hike

William Walsh
The all-new bad news is bad news narrative continues to take hold on Wall Street. We’ll get to the numbers in just a few minutes but weakness in the...

Get Ready for a Wild Ride: Key Economic Data Set to Rock the Markets Today

William Walsh
Many times, on this podcast, we’ve spoken about divergences and how they often signal to the careful observer that change is in the air. Often, we ...

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