Please note: This update was prepared on Friday, January 8, 2021, before the market’s close. Wednesday’s violence in the Capitol building left many Americans disgusted and bereft, with scores of questions left unanswered and a White House in tatters as senior staff and Cabinet members began submitting their resignations ahead …
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Please note: This update was prepared on Thursday, December 31, 2020, before the market’s close. Stocks continued to rally to new highs in the year’s final week, as traders overlooked record COVID-19 hospitalizations, slower-than-expected vaccine distribution and a sluggish job market recovery. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, the S&P 500 …
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Please note: This update was prepared on Thursday, December 24, 2020, before the market’s close. The bulls remain in charge. Neither last-minute bickering by lawmakers over much-needed COVID-19 relief legislation nor the emergence of a more infectious variant of the virus was enough to overcome positive news on the vaccine …
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Please note: This update was prepared on Friday, December 18, 2020, before the market’s close. After seesawing most of the week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the S&P 500, the NASDAQ Composite and the Russell 2000 all closed at record highs on Thursday despite mixed economic, pandemic and political news. …
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Please note: This update was prepared on Friday, December 11, 2020, before the market’s close. Stocks were soaring this week until stalled stimulus talks in Washington threatened to upstage the news we’ve all been waiting for: FDA authorization to roll out a COVID-19 vaccine. Whether it’s stimulus or vaccines, the …
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Please note: This update was prepared on Friday, December 4, 2020, before the market’s close. Despite mixed economic data suggesting the recovery is slowing, the S&P 500 inched further into record territory on a slew of good news: Vaccines may be available to health care workers by year’s-end and lawmakers …
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Please note: This update was prepared on Friday, November 27, 2020, before the market’s close. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 30000 for the first time on Tuesday in a pre-Thanksgiving rally fueled by promising results from potential vaccines and ebbing election uncertainty. While the latest upbeat vaccine announcement …
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Please note: This update was prepared on Friday, November 20, 2020, before the market’s close. Stocks bounced around this week as investors weighed upbeat news about vaccines against looming lockdowns caused by a surge in U.S. coronavirus cases. This morning, Pfizer announced plans to file for emergency-use approval from the …
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Please note: This update was prepared on Friday, November 13, 2020, before the market’s close. Stocks shot up on Monday following a game-changing announcement from Pfizer that their COVID-19 vaccine was over 90% effective based on initial Phase 3 study results. This promising development, as well as an end to …
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Please note: This update was prepared on Friday, November 6, 2020, before the market’s close. With bleary-eyed ballot counters tabulating votes following a historic turnout in this week’s national elections, stocks rallied on relief and belief: Relief that the election is almost behind us. And belief that a split government …
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Please note: This update was prepared on Friday, October 30, 2020, before the market’s close. Stocks fell this week on a combination of pre-election uncertainty and steeply rising COVID-19 cases. Not even the high-flying tech stocks were able to hold the line, as Facebook and Apple sold off on Friday …
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Please note: This update was prepared on Friday, October 23, 2020, before the market’s close. Stock markets were mostly muted this week, with Wall Street adopting a wait-and-see stance in the waning days of the presidential campaign. The latest breadcrumbs from pandemic-relief negotiations continue to drive investor sentiment—yet for all …
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