Week in review of the events impacting the markets
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.
Jul 29, 2026
One tape, two completely different movies, and a lithography machine nobody thought China could build.
