Transcript: Tom Vaughan: Hello everybody, welcome to Wednesday. The S&P 500 was up .22%, today. And we got to a new all time high of 4501 points on the S&P 500, today. Again, third day in a row with a record high; at least during the day. Really fantastic timeframe, actually. And one of the
Transcript: Tom Vaughan: Hello, everybody, welcome to Tuesday. The S&P 500 was up again, today: .15%. We hit new highs on the S&P 500 again, and new highs on the NASDAQ also again; two days in a row. And the Dow actually hit the second highest close that it’s been at so far, too. So,
Transcript: Tom Vaughan: Hello, everybody, welcome to Monday. The S&P 500 was up .85% today. It hit an all time record during the day: Again, that index goes back to 1957; so it’s a big deal. The NASDAQ hit an all time record today. The Russell 2000, the Small Cap stocks were up 1.9% today.
Transcript: Tom Vaughan: I’d like to start talking about the markets themselves. And kind of what I saw this week. And what I felt was really important, sort of a summary for the whole week as far as that goes. And so it’s been a really interesting week, of course, as usual, you know, we’re
Transcript: Tom Vaughan: Hello, everybody, welcome to Thursday. The S&P 500 was up a little over .1%, today. We did have some overall weakness and other parts of the market: The Dow was down today. The Russell 2000 index was down a little bit more than 1.2%; that’s the small caps. Oftentimes, when you see
Transcript: Tom Vaughan:Hello, everybody, welcome to Tuesday. The S&P 500 was down .7%, today. We had some retail sales numbers that came out, softer than expected; the market kind of fell from that information. Having said that, we need to have a little downturn here, in my opinion. It’s been a little while since we
Transcript: Tom Vaughan: Hello, everybody, welcome to Monday, the S&P 500 was up just a little bit more than a quarter of a percent today. And it was really interesting at the beginning of the day, it was down quite heavily actually and waiting for some downturn to happen. And I thought, well, maybe this
Transcript: Tom Vaughan: I want to cover what I see is the important components of the stock market for this week. And as as normal, you know, this is another one of these weeks where things are quite interesting altogether, and quite a few different things have happened. And so let me share my screen.
Transcript: Tom Vaughan: Hello, everyone, welcome to Wednesday. The S&P 500 was up about a quarter of a percent today, and the big news was around the inflation number that was reported today. So, the inflation was a little bit lower than expected, and it was a little bit lower than previous months, which in
Transcript: Tom Vaughan: Hello everybody, welcome to Tuesday. Today, the S&P 500 was up .1%. Bit of a rocky day, but basically what I saw today was that the infrastructure bill passing, kind of I think out did the virus growth concerns that were happening for today. It was kind of a big deal: It