The trading week started with investors worried about tariffs, but the 30-day delay of tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico shook off those worries. The three broad stock market indexes — S&P 500 ($SPX), Nasdaq Composite ($COMPQ), and Dow Jones Industrial Average ($INDU) — closed higher. Then came the retaliation on US tariffs from China, but that didn’t do much damage to the market. Let’s face it; the stock market is headline-driven at the moment. Based on the news, investors may favor healthcare stocks one day and tech stocks the next. For individual investors, playing the sector musical chair game makes for a difficult investment environment. So, instead of getting caught up in catching the right sector at the right time, it’s best to focus on the big picture and look at the longer-term trends and patterns. One way to do this is to examine the performance of different…
On Wednesday morning, the markets wavered, with cautious trading across the board, except for the Dow, which outpaced the…
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