Weekly Market Analysis for Illinois and Florida
The market’s doing the cha-cha in October
The week in review: Oct. 18-24, 2026
Strong earnings can’t overcome AI, interest rates and energy jitters for now So far, October has been a one-step-forward-and-two-steps-back kind of month. Sure, we hit new records on the S&P 500 and Nasdaq earlier this month, but since then we’ve bobbed around. Despite having a few rebounds, we haven’t achieved new highs and have instead retreated more than 200 points on the S&P 500 and around 1,700 on the Nasdaq. In a normal run-of-the-mill market, we should…