Week in review of the events impacting the markets
Aug 16, 2026
Twenty-nine students wrote down every worry they had for ten days, then went back and checked which ones actually arrived.
Aug 15, 2026
Inflation cooled twice, the consumer quit, and the S&P made you four dollars. Green light, empty intersection.
Aug 14, 2026
A record close that spent most of the day shrinking, six of the Magnificent Seven quietly undoing Wednesday, and one Treasury auction that did not get the memo.
Aug 13, 2026
Inflation behaved, the chip aisle threw a party, six of the Magnificent Seven left early, and the bond market refused to come at all.
Aug 12, 2026
Alphabet raised $25 billion, CoreWeave's interest bill doubled its losses, and a scoreboard that barely twitched hid both.
Aug 11, 2026
Oil ripped 6.73%, the chip trade split down the middle, and Intel put $20 billion on the market. The index moved a rounding error. Quiet is not the same as calm.
Aug 10, 2026
Stocks hit a record on a jobs report that lost 23,000 people. Wednesday's CPI grades the homework.
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.
