The market continued drifting mainly upward, with the stocks that have done the best recently, mainly the high-flying technology leaders taking the day off and those stocks that tend to lag when the former do better, taking the upward spotlight.

After the first two days of strong upside moves by the S&P and Nasdaq to start the week, things yesterday continued on the same pattern as the Dow was weighed down by weakness in its traditional choppy issues while the other two indices kept moving higher mainly based on the newfound, ongoing strength in technology which everyone hated a few weeks ago.

Following Monday’s upside explosion to start the week, the market did very well again yesterday, except for the Dow being distorted which knocked off around 400 points of that index just by itself. Otherwise, things were fine.

The market underwent a huge rally to start the new week after China and the United States announced a 90-day truce in their trade war. Each of the world’s two largest economies agreed to take down temporarily most of its tariffs against the other, which economists had warned could start a recession and create shortages on U.S. store shelves.

The market gave up early gains on Friday and drifted to end lower, and this late drift prevented the market from adding to the prior two week’s gains. And it was actually the first week in seven where the S&P moved by less than 1.5% after worrying about fears about the President’s trade war and hopes that he’ll relent on some of his tariffs.

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The market rose yesterday after the United States and United Kingdom announced a deal on trade that would lower some tariffs between the two countries, the first of what investors hope will be enough agreements to keep a recession from hitting the economy.

U.S. stocks closed lower Tuesday as quarterly results show more companies are tempering their forecasts for upcoming profits because of uncertainty created by the President’s tariffs.

I had said that the market looked a little tired during the Monday morning meeting, and sure enough it did as it broke a nine-day winning streak.

Equities extended their gains to a ninth straight day Friday, marking the longest winning streak since 2004 and reclaiming the ground it lost since the President escalated his trade war in early April.

For the eighth straight session, the major averages moved higher for the first time since August, as Dow component MSFT plus META after the big tech companies reported profits for the start of the year that were even bigger than analysts expected.

In another astounding session to end the wild month of April, the market reversed an awful start once again to finish mostly higher in one of the more bizarre very late panic moves.

On the next to last day of the fourth month of the year, the market started mostly lower and then put in another positive intraday performance to end higher for the sixth straight session.

In another very volatile intraday situation, the major indices went all over the place in both directions before ending mostly nominally higher.

The past four very strong higher days after a disastrous start to the week seemed like a replay of the earlier days of the rally before things came apart, in the sense that the formerly loved big tech stocks led the way once again, even as the rest of the market did not do so well.

The latest market rally kept going strongly for the third straight session yesterday as better-than-expected profits for U.S. companies piled up, though C.E.O’s said that they are unsure whether it will last because of uncertainty created by President Trump’s trade war.

U.S. stocks mostly rose yesterday after the President appeared to back off his criticism of the Federal Reserve and his tough talk about this trade war. He is finally learning that his prior antagonistic rhetoric toward these two items has resulted in steep market meltdowns up until Monday when he finally started to ease back.

After the market ended at the worst April performance since 1932, perhaps the President learned that it was not a good idea to attack the Federal Reserve Chair in such a way. In remarks to reporters on Tuesday, he walked back his previous statements that had fueled speculation about Powell's job security and helped to contribute to the latest stock market downturn.