Friday’s news of Moody’s downgrading U.S. debt? Retail investors saw it as a buying opportunity. According to JP Morgan’s Emma Wu, retail traders poured $4.1 billion into U.S. stocks in just the first three hours of trading on Monday — the largest single-morning inflow on record. That buying helped erase overnight losses, with the S&P […]
Yesterday, the S&P 500 closed lower—snapping a rare 9-day winning streak. If that feels like a big deal, it’s because it is. Historically, win streaks of this magnitude tend to happen when the market is in an uptrend, typically defined by trading above the 200-day moving average. But this streak occurred while the S&P was […]
If you feel exhausted after last month’s market action, you’re not alone. April delivered some of the most extreme volatility the S&P 500 has seen in decades: We kicked things off with a –12.1% drop in just four days — the 6th largest 4-day decline since 1950. Then came a +9.5% single-day gain, the 3rd […]