After a very weak opening again, the market turned around nicely to the upside and ended with additional gains to start the month of June, which follows a very strong month of May, which began when things were down in the dumps.

The market closed the week with a relatively quiet day, although there was huge intraday volatility from mid-day until the close.

A huge rally for stocks that began in Asia on Thursday evening with the Dow stock index futures up by 600 points, the S&P was ahead by 90 and the Nasdaq up by 400 lost steam after sweeping into Europe and the United States amid uncertainty about what will happen next after a U.S. court blocked many of the many of the President’s sweeping tariffs.

After a huge higher day on Tuesday to start the week, things cooled off yesterday on some profit-taking after the rally.

After the worst weekly showing since early April last week, the market’s roller-coaster ride created by the President’s trade policies, exploded back upward yesterday, this time because of a delay in his tariffs on the European Union.

The market fell Friday after President Donald Trump threatened 50% tariffs on the European Union that could begin in a little more than a week.

After Tuesday’s loss following a six-day winning streak, the market got absolutely destroyed yesterday under the weight of pressure from the bond market, where Treasury yields climbed on worries about the U.S. government’s spiraling debt in addition to other negative concerns.

After a rally of seven days, the market finally fell under the weight of this tremendous turnaround from a rally based on low prices to nearly all the way back to its best levels set earlier this year.

To start the new week, the market rose after a very weak start despite the U.S. losing its last AAA credit rating on Friday. Since the U.S. and China made a deal to temporarily roll back tariffs last week, the market has been moving up strongly.

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.