Week in review of the events impacting the markets
Aug 9, 2026
Wednesday afternoon it blocks the sun over Iceland. Wednesday night it hands you the best meteor shower in years. Same moon, and that is not a coincidence.
Aug 8, 2026
Stocks ripped 3.5% on a deal nobody signed and a jobs report nobody wanted. Both counted as wins.
Aug 7, 2026
Stocks drifted for a second day, oil spat out the peace trade, and Alphabet passed the hat for the AI bill. Then everybody stopped to stare at 7:30.
Aug 3, 2026
Five straight days of labor data, a Fed that stopped explaining itself, and a 59% bet nobody asked for.
Aug 2, 2026
A channel nobody could actually watch launched at one minute past midnight with a song about a technology killing the one before it. Forty-four years later its music channels played that exact same video and went dark.
Aug 1, 2026
The S&P gained 1%. Underneath it, a 32-point pileup and three Fed officials voting to raise rates.
Jul 31, 2026
Same AI bill, same night, opposite verdicts. Plus a memory shortage that quietly became everyone's problem.
Jul 30, 2026
A shorter statement, no road map, and a market that filled the silence with the worst thing it could think of.
