Market Review
October 24, 2026
Despite strong numbers from AI companies, the market stayed unimpressed. Good news seems no longer to be enough. Two questions now hang over the AI data centers: who pays for them, and when will the expected revenues arrive?
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Market Review
October 17, 2026
The Nasdaq fell 4.48% in a week, while the Dow rose 0.67%. Investors have not left the market, but they have moved to another segment. Investment specialists call it a rotation.
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Market Review
October 10, 2026
The S&P 500 ended the week close to a new record. By contrast, the Russell 2000, which tracks 2,000 smaller US companies, headed in the opposite direction and edged closer to a correction. The widening gap tells a story of two very different markets, where rising interest rates weigh more heavily on smaller companies.
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Market Review
October 5, 2026
On Friday came news that should have rattled investors: the US economy added just 29,000 jobs in September. What was bad news for workers and shareholders suddenly looked like good news for borrowers.
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Market Review
September 28, 2026
Stocks rallied on Meta’s new AI agent. US Treasury yields hit their highest since 2007. Same news, two opposite readings.
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Market Review
September 21, 2026
The Fed’s first rate hike in three years sent bond yields to a 19-year high. But just days later, renewed enthusiasm for AI propelled the Nasdaq to a record high.
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Market Review
September 7, 2026
A jobs report beat forecasts threefold. Investors panicked instead of celebrating, as renewed US-Iran fighting sent oil to its steepest weekly gain in months.
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Market Review
August 31, 2026
Fed Chair Kevin Warsh warned inflation hadn’t cooled as hoped, sending bond yields to a two-year high. Stocks, gold and bitcoin rallied anyway.
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Market Review
August 24, 2026
US borrowing costs jumped to levels last seen before the 2008 crisis, forcing Washington to announce a bond buyback to calm markets.
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Market Review
August 17, 2026
Weak jobs, retail sales and consumer confidence data lifted rate-cut hopes and pushed the S&P 500 to a fresh record. A historic yen intervention was already fading.
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Market Review
August 10, 2026
A shockingly weak jobs report reshaped the week. Stocks hit fresh records, yields fell, and the dollar slid to a seven-week low, even as Middle East tensions kept oil elevated.
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Market Review
July 27, 2026
Oil, bond yields and a cautious Fed spelled trouble. Blowout earnings from Amazon and Microsoft carried stocks to record highs by Friday anyway.
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Market Review
July 27, 2026
Big Tech’s AI spending spooked investors. Middle East tensions kept oil on edge. Both worries eased by Friday.
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Market Review
July 20, 2026
Geopolitics set the tone. Escalating US-Iran hostilities pushed oil sharply higher and dragged tech shares lower, even as softer inflation kept Treasury yields steady.
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Market Review
July 6, 2026
A holiday-shortened week ended with a soft June jobs report, just 57,000 added, challenging the Fed’s hawkish tilt and giving bonds and equities room to breathe.
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Market Review
June 29, 2026
Investors’ patience with AI spending snapped. The Nasdaq fell 4.6% even as the Dow rose.
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Market Review
June 22, 2026
New Fed Chair Kevin Warsh delivered a hawkish hold: rates unchanged, projections tilting toward tightening. Oil tumbled, the dollar firmed.
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Market Review
June 8, 2026
Tech raced to records on a new Nvidia chip. Then a blowout jobs report revived rate-hike fears, triggering a classic good-news-is-bad-news reversal.
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Market Review
June 1, 2026
A 60-day US-Iran memorandum extended the ceasefire and pulled oil lower. Wall Street rode the unwinding risk premium to record highs.
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Market Review
May 18, 2026
Hotter-than-expected inflation collided with the energy shock, sending Treasury yields to a one-year high. The mood soured despite a seventh straight weekly equity gain.
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Market Review
May 11, 2026
A firmer jobs report, solid earnings and easing Middle East tensions extended the rally to a sixth week. The S&P 500 hit a fresh record as oil retreated.
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Market Review
May 4, 2026
Risk assets pushed to record highs despite the Middle East war. Strong earnings and easing Fed-hike fears outweighed oil above USD 110.
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