Weekly Market Analysis for Illinois and Florida
Markets shrug off low GDP report
The week in review: Feb. 15-21, 2026
Normally, bad news is, well, bad. But a weak fourth-quarter gross domestic product number didn’t seem to faze markets. We haven’t closed above 7,000 on the S&P 500 in 2026, but have come tantalizingly close. We did close above 50,000 on the Dow, but have since come off those highs. And the Nasdaq continues to tread water because the index is dominated by tech stocks, and those travails have been well documented in these commentaries….