Weekly Market Analysis for Illinois and Florida
Why markets climbed last week (and what the Fed does next)
The week in review: October 4-10, 2026
Yields and oil cool long enough for markets to set new records With all that’s going on, who would have thought we’d see new records in the S&P 500 and Nasdaq? That’s exactly what happened last Tuesday. If you listened to the pundits, the sky was about to fall. Maybe it still will, but as usual hypothesis and reality (via actual events) take their own paths. The S&P 500 topped 7,800 for the first time and…