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After consideration on part of the staff of this website, we have decided to turn the Weekly Market Recap into a Monthly Market Recap. We will begin this new recap with the month of September. Please stay tuned for updates and thank you for visiting our site.

Monthly Market Recap

December 2010

December was a strong finish to 2010. You can see that we are starting to recover from the financial crisis of late. We still have a ways to go, but we are much closer after this year. Overall, it was a pretty respectable month and a pretty respectable year.

November 2010

November was a decent month. Stocks performed reasonably well. There were no occurences of extremely irregular or weird behavior. There was really not much to report.

October 2010

October was a month of generally steady gains across the markets. You had some good earninngs reports, as well. Specifically, Apple posted a proft of more than $4 billion after revenue of just over $19 billion. Apple also revealed its new Mac OSX 10.7, codename Lion, the Mac App Store, and the new MacBook Airs. But across the board, it was a month that most companies could be proud of, or at least live with.

September 2010

September is the kick-off of our new Monthly Recap page. We will not go as in depth as the Weekly Recap page did, but we should be able to update it more regularily. September was a decent month for stocks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average showed a more than modest gain of about $400 from $10,400 to $10,800. Stocks reacted similarly with decent gains overall. There really is no major news to report for the month, but it shows a good indication that the economy is at least getting back on the right track.

Weekly Market Recap

August 9-13, 2010

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August 2-6, 2010

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July 26-30, 2010

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July 19-23, 2010

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July 12-16, 2010

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July 5-9, 2010

After the markets were closed on Monday in observance of the 4th of July, the market did okay. Earnings were decent, and jobs were up. Signs that a slow, but steady, recovery are under way.

June 28-July 2, 2010

The markets have been variable once again. Some good days, and some bad days. There are more jobless people again with the census over, but the economy is on a slow rebound.

June 21-25, 2010

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June 14-18, 2010

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June 7-11, 2010

The DOW had some days of sharp drops early in the week, but started to recover during the middle of the week. Stocks followed on the volatile roller coaster.

May 31-June 4, 2010

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May 24-28, 2010

More sharp declines for stocks amid more European debt worries. What's new? Stocks had days of rebounds followed by days of losses. There are still a lot of problems with the current economy that need to be fixed.

May 17-21, 2010

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May 10-14, 2010

The beginning of the week was filled with rebounds from the DOW's major drop towards the end of last week. By the end of the week, however, the market started to drop on more worries of European debt failure. Speculation is such a big part of the market. It will drop more points based on rumors than on cold, hard facts. Maybe investors should gain some common sense.

May 3-7, 2010

On May 1 was the Annual Meeting of Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway. There was not much to note from that except that Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger stayed in strong support of Goldman Sachs, even after the recent investigation. The end of this week was one that many investors would like to forget. A combination of fear of Greek debt and trading errors led the DOW to be down nearly 1,000 points in the afternoon. It was able to recover slightly and close down 350. Friday was a little better, but the DOW closed down 140 points.

April 26-30, 2010

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April 19-23, 2010

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April 12-16, 2010

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April 5-9, 2010

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March 29-April 2, 2010

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March 22-26, 2010

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March 15-19, 2010

It was a fairly uneventful week in the world of business. Jobless claims are continuing to fall, but there was no major effect on the market. Over the coming weekend, Congress is going to vote on the monumental health care bill. Technology stocks are always rather volatile. One example from this week would be Palm. Though there was much hype for their new WebOS and devices such as the Pre and Pixi, it sort of fell through for many people. That left Palm with a large loss. In a direct correlation with that, their stock dropped by 25% on Friday. I just do not think that tech stocks are a smart idea at all.

March 8-12, 2010

Overall, it was not a terrible week for stocks. We received some good earnings numbers. Jobless claims once again fell, so we can hope that the job market is starting to recover. Also, the Federal Reserve announced that it sees no reason to raise the interest rate in the near future, which is good news for consumers.

March 1-5, 2010

This was a very good week for the markets. There were good earnings releases and jobless claims fell, so many stocks reported dramatic rises over the week. We are all hoping that this is a sign that the economy is starting to turn around. Other than that, no wildly spectacular news was presented.

February 22-26, 2010

Once again we experienced a fairly volatile week in the stock market. Some high points included Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke promising that interest rates would stay low for the time being. Also, reports are showing that the economy grew 5.9% in the end of 2009, which is a good thing. In some bad news, jobless rates are once again growing. It is still quite unclear how the recovery is coming along.

February 15-19, 2010

Overall, the markets this week were quite stable. You had considerable gains this week, but not a lot of major losses. Once again in the news is Toyota. They are having trouble with another car. They are debating whether to recall the 2009-10 Corollas due to a steering problem. Also in the business world, agriculural equipment manufacturor, Deere & Co., announced a 19% Q1 profit, which boosted their stock considerably.

February 8-12, 2010

We are seeing a recurring theme in the market, and that theme would be volitility. Once again, that was highly present through the past week. We had good days and bad days. One bad day included the DOW closing the lowest it had in three months. There were higher unemployment numbers and the possibility of illegal actions by Bank of America. On the happier side, Berkshire Hathaway completed its purchase of BNSF and was inducted into the S&P 500, and Pepsico reported a profit.

February 1-5, 2010

There was not a lot to not in the past week, except for the troubles with Toyota. They have had to recall millions of cars due to the gas pedal sticking, trouble with the floor mat, or trouble in the braking system. This really puts a new light on Toyota's slogan of "Moving Forward" and it might happen even when you do not want it to.

January 25-29, 2010

Stocks overall did not do really well. Things exhibited a lot of volitility, but overall, the market did not do anything really spectacular.

January 18-22, 2010

There were a couple of major things that went on over the past week. One prominent aspect was that shareholders of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway voted to split their Class B-Shares 50-to-1 to help with their takeover of railroad Burlington Northern Santa Fe. The voter's meeting was held on Wednesday in Omaha, Nebraska (Headquarters for Berkshire).

Also this week, President Obama addressed the nation on Thursday and blamed the banks for the recent economic troubles that have been plaguing the nation. This led stocks all across the board to dive down sharply.

It came out on Friday that Ben Bernanke might not stay the Federal Reserve Chairman. This sent stocks diving down again. This week has been the stock market's worst week since last March.

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