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 ...

From Solar Panels to Soybeans: The True Impact of U.S. Tariffs 

William Walsh
Tariffs, and protectionism more broadly, are always promoted as advancing the interests of US companies and US jobs. These are stated as axiomatic, as...

NVIDIA's Earnings Blowout: Market's Mixed Reaction 

William Walsh
Artificial Intelligence giant NVIDIA reported 2nd Quarter financial results after the bell on Wednesday and the numbers exceeded expectations along ev...

The Fed's Tightrope: Why Lower Rates Might Not Boost Asset Prices

William Walsh
Like Darth Vader finally blurting out that he was indeed the baby daddy, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell, in his speech to the Jackson Ho...

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 ...

CPI Comes in as Expected, Market Yawns 

William Walsh
The headline Consumer Price Index numbers came in precisely as expected on Wednesday morning. We’ll get into those numbers in just a minute but the ...

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...

Is the Market Taking a Vacation? Inflation Numbers Could Change That

William Walsh
Stocks finished mixed but mostly little changed again on Monday, on volume that was as low as we’ve seen for any non-holiday session in a very long ...

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’...
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