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Stocks briefly turned negative after the opening bell on Friday morning, but the bulls quickly jumped in to tack onto the gains of Thursday huge reversal day. The Dow jumped 835-points. We started to hear a lot about how stocks tend to bottom as, or shortly after, a major military invasion ensues, and the market did not disappoint last week. But there's other trouble on the horizon and investors will have to start to consider how much of the bad news is already priced in. The market generally ...

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The long-anticipated invasion of Ukraine by Russia took place this week. Uncertainty leading up to the invasion had investors retreating in mass from risky assets. When the invasion became official Thursday morning, stocks opened down and it seemed the selling would deepen. Instead, the morning lows on Thursday would be the base of a rally that extended through Thursday and Friday where stocks closed at their highs for the week in positive territory. After spending most of the week in negative territory, ...

Stocks opened sharply lower on Thursday as a reaction to the Russian invasion of the Ukraine. It was a dramatic drop but we saw buyers step up after a lot of the damage was done by the gap down. The gap down in the S&P 500 was 70-points wide, almost 2%, and it was closed by about 2:30 PM ET. The 63 point gain in the S&P seems modest considering the wide swings, but that was a gain of 1.5% on the day. Not quite enough to get back all of Wednesday's losses but impressive enough. The Nasdaq ...

Stocks opened higher on Wednesday, and that was about as good as it got as sellers jumped on the gains right away, and by the close it was another negative day for the stock market as investors finally saw a test of the January lows manifest. What now, is the question? The Dow lost 465-points while the Nasdaq lagged with a 2.6% decline and, after holding up well for most of the day, small caps tanked into close to lose more than 2%.

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