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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.

Signal or noise. Amidst a noisy day of varied information stocks closed mixed in yesterday’s session. Extreme beats and misses combined with mixed global economic news helped the Dow and S&P rally into the close after spending the day in red.

Gentle glide. Stocks rose marginally yesterday in a low volume session on a benign economic number. In the quiet before the earnings storm, traders cautiously drove the S&P and NASDAQ Composite indexes to new highs.