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Dinner is a winner!? Stocks surged on the heals of continued Fed happiness and reports surfacing that a deal for China was prepped and ready. All major equity indices traded up late in Friday’s session ending November on a positive note. The move represented a convergence of positive drivers, chief...

Calm before the storm. Market’s traded off slightly in a bumpy day of trade where numbers didn’t matter but tarmac talk saved the day. Markets started the day soft, trading to session lows by mid morning largely ignoring economic numbers that suggested that inflation was slightly lower than...

Ease to please! It was a Fed-head fiesta as markets roared upward yesterday in response to the Fed Chairman’s ever-so-slightly dovish speech in the largest positive move since earlier in the year. Markets began yesterday’s session with a positive posture ahead of what might have been a...

Chop to the top. In a choppy day of trade equities ended up in the positive with a little help from an Administration advisor and no surprises from Fed speakers. As reported yesterday morning, President Trump not only stated that he would allow the second set of tariffs to kick in on Jan. 1, but...

Now that’s the spirit! Markets rang in the holiday season with a decisively positive day yesterday as holiday spirit ignited traders’ hopes of a year-end rally. Traders put down their last leftover turkey sandwiches as early reads on the holiday season retail came in showing healthy growth. Saudi...

Turkey haze. Traders could not muster the energy to rally stocks on Friday’s short session as they pressed the sell button from their couches. Friday’s abridged session finished off what was the worst Thanksgiving week in years as crude oil plummeted and trade fears rang through the markets. The...