The market continued to rise once again last week, with the S&P advancing for the eighth straight time, the Nasdaq gained 0.5% while the Dow was the best performer with a 2.1% showing to over 50,000 as IBM led the upside charge with its best weekly showing in 25 years.

After last week’s meeting between the leaders of the two most important economic powers, Professor Jeremy Siegel of the Wharton School at the U. of Pennsylvania was asked to rate the outcome of the gathering from 1 to 10. His answer was MINUS 2 based on the following – there was NO agreement to resolve the fact that the Straight of Hormuz still remained close and China warned the U.S. NOT to interfere with its potential attempts to take over the island of Taiwan, which the U.S. President agreed to even though it is 9,000 miles away at the same time that he began the war with Iran, which is over 7,000 miles apart from the U.S.

In another incredible week that just ended, the market once again did what it has been doing for the past several, namely making new incredible highs to all-time records led by the S&P and Nasdaq closing at their best ever levels.

The market just ended another incredible higher period overall, with both the S&P and Nasdaq ending higher than ever, at five straight weeks to the upside and best kevels since October 2024. It was the second-best April for the S&P since 2000.

After a rough week with three out of the first four days lower, the market finally got it to end the week on Friday with nice gains. Even though the Dow ended lower by 79 points, the S&P advanced by 57 to finish at 7165 to top all-time prior high from Wednesday while the Nasdaq gained 398 to its all-time high best level of 24,836.

The stock market continued its record-setting rally to end the week on Friday after Iran said that the Strait of Hormuz was now re-opened to commercial shipping, increasing confidence that war in the Middle East was finally coming to an end.

The market just ended its best weekly performance of the year and gained for the second week in a row. The cease-fire announced on Tuesday resulted in the best day for stocks in about a year as the Nasdaq has gained for eight days in a row for 4.7% and has now done better than its pre-war levels. The S&P gained 3.6%, which was its strongest showing in about a year and has advanced by more than 60% of what it lost in the war-related decline, while the Dow advanced by 3%.

After five straight lower weeks for the S&P and the Nasdaq, things finally turned around to the upside in last week’s holiday shortened session.

After a brief bounce last Monday because of supposed easing tensions in the Iraq war, the market then underwent a complete collapse to end the week on Friday.

The market just ended a horrible week, with the Dow lower for the fourth straight week to its lowest price since September 2022. The S&P and Nasdaq also were down for the fourth straight week as well with the former down to its worst level since September 2025 while the Russell 2000 Index of small stocks has now entered into correction territory with declines in excess of 10% from its highs.

The market ended an awful week, with declines on four of the past five trading days, after a strong start based on bullish comments from the President. What made the matters worse was the complete inability to make early morning gains and also intraday gains sustain themselves, as sellers took over and pushed things to end at or near the worst levels of each session.

The market ended one of its worst weeks ever as the Dow Jones plunging by as much 945 points before ending down with a loss of 453, or 0.9%, which totaled a 3% collapse for the week. This was it worst decline since last April.

U.S. stocks sank Friday as the market kept punishing companies that could become losers in the AI revolution. A 15% tariffs by the administration also hurt the market, while oil prices climbed with worries about what has now become tensions after the U.S. and Israel went to war with Iran.

Stocks were mixed at the close of a rough week after a crucial inflation report showed prices rose less than expected last month.

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The S&P and blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average each advanced 0.1% on Friday, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite gained 1.5% after five straight weekly declines. Stocks were coming off a bruising session Thursday, when the AI jitters that sparked last week’s AI downdraft flared up.

Stocks were mixed at the close of a rough week after a crucial inflation report showed prices rose less than expected last month.

The U.S. stock market roared back on Friday, as technology stocks recovered much of their losses from earlier in the week and bitcoin halted its plunge, at least for now.

Financial markets churned on Friday as investors tried to figure out what the President’s new nominee to lead the Federal Reserve, will mean for interest rates.

The market drifted through narrow trading Friday, as a zigzag week punctuated by threats and reversal of directions ended with a quiet and tentative close.

Stocks ended slightly lower on Friday as the first week of corporate earnings season ended with markets trading near record levels.

I believe that the stronger gains after a mixed to lower start was the result by the Supreme Court not issuing a decision after the President’s tariff situation on Friday which could have been negative for equities had it gone against his wishes.