Last week was a reminder of just how interconnected our social, economic, and market cycles have become. From tragic headlines and the somber anniversary of 9/11 to major shifts in the labor market and jaw-dropping news out of the tech sector, investors were left to sort through a flood
Given the shortened week following the Labor Day weekend, I'm going to keep my normally much longer market commentary to a minimum and let the charts tell the story of last week.
Like a sprinter who suddenly finds a moving sidewalk underfoot, the market raced through the last full week of July with an extra jolt of speed it didn’t seem to need. Hints of a tariff truce with Europe, fresh
Remember when the market was terrified of its own shadow back in April? Well, the AI trade slapped a rally cap on Wall Street and dragged the major indexes back into the green. Meanwhile, Washington and Beijing are playing “Rollback Roulette,” and the President is again blasting Jerome Powell harder
On Monday Nvidia lost $589 BILLION on market cap, a new record. Nvidia alone accounted for 2/3 of the drop in the S&P 500 index. We have discussed the lack of diversification and concentration risk in the S&P 500 occasionally the last couple of years.
