The second quarter closed on Tuesday. Here’s the cross-asset scoreboard, because the story it tells is more coherent than any single market’s narrative. The numbers Stocks: the S&P 500 ended June at 7,499, up about 1% for a choppy quarter that featured a record high in May (7,599), a June correction to 7,238, and a […]
The S&P 500 closed the week at 7,473 — roughly where it started, roughly where it ended last week, and roughly where it’s spent the entire month. June has become a drawn-out stalemate between dip-buyers and profit-takers, and both sides are refusing to blink. The bull case, stated fairly Every test of 7,240–7,350 has been […]
The S&P 500’s remarkable run finally hit some friction. The index closed Friday at 7,384 — down 3% from the early-June record near 7,610 and briefly touching 7,238 during Tuesday’s session, the deepest intraday decline of 2026. After a straight-line rally that added 9% in six weeks, the pullback was overdue and, so far, entirely […]
The S&P 500 closed Monday at 7,401, extending a rally that has carried the index up nearly 8% since the April lows near 6,790. What’s striking about this advance isn’t its size — it’s its texture. The gains have come on steady volume, led by the broad market rather than a handful of megacaps, and […]