We have a huge week of earnings, as we get ready to look at how our favorite companies report, and hopefully, we will see more companies giving guidance in 2021!

This week’s inauguration was the most untraditional in American history.  To hit the ground running, President Biden signed his extensive list of Day 1 executive actions - 17 - surpassing that of any previous president in modern history.   The markets responded positively, hitting record highs on Inauguration Day.

Markets are trying to bounce back after a losing week, President-elect Joe Biden plans to dive into economic recovery immediately once he takes office, and the IRS delays the start of tax season.

I am excited to kick off a new format of our market recaps. We will countdown top 3 topics impacting the markets this week.

As the week kicked off on Monday, it began with a sell-off and volatility. Wall Street suffered an ugly start to 2021 with the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropping more than 700 points at one point Monday.

Happy New Year’s Eve. Thank you to all our subscribers, viewers, and supporters in this truly crazy year.

This week we closed out news on the IPO market since there won’t be any new activity during the holiday season. 

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The IPO process had been scrutinized for a while now which had led to alternative approaches like SPACs or Direct Listing but last week's performance is again shining the light on the process.  

The IPO market continued its relentless drive upward, jumping another +3.9% for the week, far outpacing the S&P 500's +1.7% rise.

Welcome to December! November was a tough one to beat with many pockets of the market hitting new records, such as the Dow hitting 30K but Wall Street analysts believe some stocks still have a lot of upside going forward. 

The Dow reached 30k and that brought optimism as we move into the Thanksgiving weekend.

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We kick off this week with the markets rising sharply based on Moderna’s vaccine being 94.5% effective.

The market surged on Monday with the Dow rising of over 800 points in the biggest rally in 5 months. The record highs on Monday were based on news from Pfizer and BioNTech that their coronavirus vaccine is more than 90% effective.

Wow, what a week it’s been as we navigated through the election results and it looks like we will wrap up the week with Biden becoming president-elect.

The bull market hopefuls are looking forward to the election being over, resuming stimulus talks, furthering the support of the central bank, and preliminary vaccine data.  The bear market perspective is no near term stimulus, overestimating on 2021 earnings and reversing on the reopening.   

Happy Halloween! This week has been really spooky as the market is experiencing its worst week since March 2020. We are down almost 5% for the week and as I projected this is going to be more of a W recovery than a V-shaped.

As we kick off the week we are having a major sell-off because covid cases are up and there is a lockdown now being implemented in Europe, in addition to progress on stimulus conversations drying up and Q4 earnings are under threat.  

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