Archive for August, 2017
Weekly Market Update – 28 August 2017 BMO
Stocks Finish Week on a Positive Note No news proved to be good news for the bulls the past week, giving them an opportunity to reclaim control of the U.S. equity market, which rode a two-week slide into Monday’s session. The S&P 500 and the Dow finished with gains of 0.7% apiece while the Nasdaq (+0.8%) […]
Weekly Market Update – 21 August 2017 BMO
Equities End the Week on a Lower Note Wall Street had another disappointing week, its second in a row, as investors continued to drag the major U.S. indices from their all-time highs. The Dow, the S&P 500, and the Nasdaq finished with losses of 0.8%, 0.7%, and 0.6%, respectively, while the small-cap Russell 2000 underperformed […]
Weekly Market Update – 14 August 2017 BMO
Wall Street Slips Alongside U.S.-North Korea Relations Wall Street took it to the chin this week as a war of words between the U.S. and North Korea prompted investors to take some profits on the heels of the stock market’s most recent run to new record highs. Small caps paced the retreat, sending the Russell […]
Weekly Market Update – 07 August 2017 BMO
DOW JONES DOMINATES, RUSSELLS TAKE A HIT According to the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the stock market had yet another bullish week; the industrial average ended Friday at a record high, for the eighth session in a row, and a weekly gain of 1.2%. However, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq tell a less conclusive […]
July 2017 In Review, August Preview
WHAT AN AMAZING MONTH!! July 2017 is going to be a month I am not likely to forget for a very long time. So many things happened so quickly that the month went by so fast leaving only these wonderful memories on which I will build a future on. I started the month in Kuala Lumpur […]