Transcript: Tom Vaughan: Hello everybody, welcome to Thursday. The S&P 500 was down .7% today. We got a couple of different catalysts. Number one, we had this company called Evergrande, in China. Big real estate firm, 300 billion in debt. They defaulted on some of their interest payments, on a couple of their bonds and
Transcript: Tom Vaughan: Hello everybody, welcome to Wednesday. The S&P 500 was up .3% today. And the news that was I think important today had to do with kind of what was talked about yesterday, just the Omicron variant itself. Pfizer finished some of their studies, we’ve been waiting for some of these original fear
Transcript: Tom Vaughan: Hello everybody, welcome to Tuesday. The S&P 500 was up almost 2.1% today. Really strong day, a lot of interesting things happened today. First of all, and maybe most important for me, is that they have come to a resolution, so to speak about the debt ceiling. Schumer, McConnell and Pelosi have
Transcript: Tom Vaughan: Hello everybody, welcome to Monday. The S&P 500 was up 1.2% today. And we actually use this as an opportunity to lighten up on the stock market exposure that we have. We specifically did this in our IRA accounts and not in our taxable accounts. And I really don’t want to generate
Transcript: Tom Vaughan: I always do like to start the show with a you know, summary of kind of what’s happening with the market. And you know, we’ve had in the last two weeks now some downturns across the market really kind of peaked out in early November. So I think this is a really
Transcript: Tom Vaughan: Hello everybody, welcome to Thursday. The S&P 500 was up a little bit more than 1.4% today. The Dow did even better, more than 1.8% today. The Russell 2000 Small Cap index was up 2.7% today. That particular index has been lagging behind for a while now. So it’s kind of nice
Transcript: Tom Vaughan: Hello everybody, welcome to Wednesday. The S&P 500 was down almost 1.2% today. An interesting day, the market was up in the morning, and then started down, and continued down throughout the rest of the afternoon after we heard about the first case of the Omicron variant. And so this was here
Transcript: Tom Vaughan: Hello everybody, welcome to Tuesday. The S&P 500 was down 1.9% today. There’s really a couple of major catalysts that caused this. In the morning, we had some news that the Moderna CEO said that the Omicron variant, because of the number of different mutations that has, might have some bigger impact
Transcript: Tom Vaughan: Hello everybody, welcome to Tuesday. The S&P 500 was up .17% today. Dow was up, NASDAQ was down. I’d like to talk about the NASDAQ because it’s really interesting what’s happening, and so is down again, you know, yesterday and today, and has been on a really good tear for the past
Transcript: Tom Vaughan: All right, I always like to start off the show with a little bit of a summary of what I saw happening in the market this week. And really, this is a very good week altogether from what we’ve seen last week. We had the big drop that happened from the inflation