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The rattling of sabers. Stock traders were treated to a healthy dose of whipsaw yesterday as an early session rally turned into a late session selloff. An upbeat Trump tweet to start the day caused early buying which quickly faded as news that China was preparing countermeasures to tariffs...

It’s getting hot in here! Stocks fell sharply yesterday as trade fears just wouldn’t go away and the reality of a potential deal failure became a thing again. Traders just could not shake off the fears of a failed deal with China and started to do the math that eluded them on Monday.

A Game of Trade. Stocks futures were pummeled on a Presidential Tweet threatening increased tariffs causing stocks to open deeply in the red only to roar back later in the session as investors chose optimism as their thesis. Trump had done it before, a stinging threat on the verge of the closing of...

Flying close to the sun. On Friday, stocks catapulted higher on a good jobs report, breaking a two-day losing streak. There was little question in the minds of traders on Friday as they traded stocks up on the positive economic news, though not all may be as it appeared on the surface.

Don’t stop the music. Investors spent yesterday feeding their Fed disappointment with selling. Still disappointed in Jerome Powell’s Wednesday admission that the recent decline in inflation was transitory, traders sold sending large cap equity indexes down for a second day.

Whipsaw! Traders were whipsawed by the Fed yesterday as Chairman Powell pulled the plug on the rate-cut dance party. The Fed took center stage yesterday keeping rates unchanged but dashing hopes of a rate cut causing stocks and bonds to sell off late in the session.