Wall Street ends up as investors buoyed by tariff relief, upbeat data
By David French
Thu January 22,
2026 4:00 PM
For a second day the indexes continued to ride the wave of ebullience after Trump’s U-turn yesterday on Greenland tariffs and starting to buy back the huge losses from Tuesday. Even though the Dow has now completely recovered, both the tech indexes are still a little shy of Monday’s close before the storm set in.
Wall Street ends higher as investors cheer Greenland framework deal, averted tariffs
By David French
Wed January 21, 2026 4:52 PM
After yesterday’s enormous selloff, today was a bargain hunter’s dream as all three indexes enjoyed very comfortable gains from the prior session’s huge losses. Then at 11 a.m. began a decline which lasted until 2:30 pm, at which time Trump reversed his position on the Greenland-related tariffs and the market immediately catapulted and closed having recouped a large percentage of Tuesday’s losses.
Wall Street ends lower amid global selloff on Trump Greenland tariff threats
By David French
Tue January 20, 2026 4:00 PM
This would have been a good day for short-sellers and nothing was more predictable. As of last evening, the forecast was for the Dow to dump 600 points due to the Greenland issue. That turned out to be optimistic as there was actually an 870 point loss and we knew there was trouble when the S&P lost 143, so very rare to lose 3-digits. The question: is this just a blip or the beginning of a long-term problem? Coming later this week will be PCE and updated Q3 GDP. There will also be a number of heavyweights coming in with Q4 reports in the next few days. Per the CBOE, trading was brisk at 20.6 billion, considerably above the 16.8 average.
DJ: 49,359.33 -83.11 NAS: 23,515.39
-14.63 S&P: 6,940.01
-4.46 1/16
DJ: 48,488.59 -870.74 NAS: 22,954.32
-561.06 S&P: 6,796.86
-143.15 1/20
Wall Street ends little changed before long weekend
Fri January 16,
2026 5:21 PM
All three indexes performed more or less flat today as investors sit on the fence as Q4 reporting has just gotten underway. Though the big banks are still turning in solid Q4, the sector remains haunted by the prospect, though considered unlikely to materialize, of the proposed 10% cap on credit card interest. The Dow took a bigger hit than the others as the rotation away from megacaps and into undervalued small caps continues, with the small caps index hitting still another record.
Wall Street ends higher; banks gain following results, chips rally with TSMC
Thu January 15, 2026 4:57 PM
All it took today was a little good news from the banks and, once again the chips, to send the indexes way up again. After a few days of lackluster Q4 earnings from the banks, good results came from both Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs with upbeat Q4, and chips got their boost from a blockbuster report from Taiwan’s TSMC. The rotation to undervalued small caps continues with “the banks and old-school industrials” as standouts. S&P industrials hit another record high.
Wall Street ends lower, led by drop in Nasdaq, with tech, banks falling
Wed January 14, 2026 6:39 PM
It was a third day of the financial markets dealing with the stunning Trump proposal of a 10% cap on credit card interest with Jamie Dimon and other major bankers arguing that all it will accomplish is denying millions of consumers access to credit at all, and that will do untold damage to the economy. Bank stocks and the banking index fell again. Even Citigroup and BofA fell even though their Q4 beat expectations. Or it could be argued that after an illustrious 2025, investors are simply taking profits out of the bank stocks. All three indexes actually fell dramatically until about noon before recovering most losses by close.
Wall Street falls with financials amid credit card rate plan concern
Tue January 13, 2026 4:46 PM
Yesterday’s credit card proposal capping interest charges at 10% has thrown the banks for a loop with another big sell off that brought both MasterCard and Visa down about 4% and the overall financial sector down 1.8%. Jamie Dimon chimed in today with a warning that the plan could “severely hurt consumers” and the overall economy while JPMorgan dropped 4.2%.
S&P 500, Dow hit closing record highs; Walmart, tech climb
Mon January 12, 2026 4:44 PM
With the Trump administration threatening to indict Jerome Powell, all three indexes started in the red this morning but with Walmart announcing it will switch from the Dow to Nasdaq this month, all three indexes got a nice little boost with all three closing in the green. Tech did better than the other what with Q4 forecasts for the tech sector being an astounding 26.5% year-on-year. S&P earnings overall are seen climbing some 8.8%.
S&P 500 notches record high close driven by Broadcom, other chipmakers
Fri January 9, 2026 6:16 PM
It was a great day overall with both industrials and tech enjoying handsome 3-digit gains as the chip sector sees AI as getting closer to showing tangible results with the index gaining 2.7% to a record high. Industrials got a boost from employment declining more than expected but accompanied by a decline in unemployment suggesting the job market was not declining too rapidly and thus not change rate cut expectations.
Wall Street ends mixed as tech dips, defense stocks rally
By Purvi Agarwal and Noel
Randewich
Thu January 8, 2026 7:10 PM
The Dow headed straight up, the Nasdaq straight down as industrials reacted to a proposed strongly beefed up defense budget and tech, though AI is still hot, still haunted by valuation fears. Trump is proposing hiking the defense budget by at least 50% sending defense stocks way up. New unemployment claims rose modestly and the overall labor demand remains sluggish. All eyes are on tomorrow’s nonfarm payrolls for more hints on Fed rate policy for the coming year. Volume was heavy at 16.9 billion, passing the 16.3 average.
DJ: 48,996.08 -466.00 NAS: 23,584.28
+37.10 S&P: 6,920.93
-23.89 1/7
DJ: 49,266.11 +270.03 NAS: 23,480.02
-104.26 S&P: 6,921.45 +0.53 1/8
S&P 500 ends lower, AI stocks buoy Nasdaq
Wed January 7, 2026 4:31 PM
Tech had a pretty good morning but a lousy afternoon. The Nasdaq was up almost 200 before starting an afternoon tumble and barely breaking even with the S&P in negative digits and the Dow down big. The possible triggers were an anemic jobs report which failed to budge the meter on future rate cuts.
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Dow hits record, energy stocks end higher after US strikes Venezuela
Mon January 5, 2026 5:09 PM
For the first day of the first trading week of the new year investors reacted with great enthusiasm to this past weekend’s military operation in Venezuela as giving U.S. oil producers access to the world’s largest oil reserves. The energy index jumped a whopping 2.7% as major players Exxon Mobil and Chevron both surged. Obviously the whole defense sector got a major boost as well with the defense index reaching a record high. The banks are also very much back in favor too as Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase also hit records with investors now seeing financials as an attractive alternative to tech.
Dow closes higher on first day of 2026, still no Santa Claus rally
By Saeed Azhar, Purvi
Agarwal and Nikhil
Sharma
Fri January 2, 2026 4:33 PM
Tech started well in the black this morning but then began an almost immediate pullback spending most of the rest of the session modestly in the red. Industrials on the other hand started in the red and quickly catapulted into the black, the Dow closing with a handsome 3-digit gain while the other two basically just broke even. The Santa Claus Rally has more or less been declared dead after having a first few very good days, But uncertainty over the economy and the future of AI put a damper on it this year, though ironically today in particular was a very good day for AI, chips being up 4%.
