Stocks Just Had Their Worst Week in a Year. The Companies? Still Fine.

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Weekly Market & ValueAligned Portfolio Review — trading week of June 1–5, 2026 The short version The S&P 500 — a list of 500 of the biggest U.S. companies — fell 2.6% last week. Tech stocks fell harder, down 5.6%. Almost all the selling hit the biggest tech and AI names. The average stock barely […]

The week the S&P 500 stayed quiet while everything else got loud

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TL;DR Oil jumped almost 12% after fighting near Iran shut down a key shipping lane, and U.S. crude closed at $105.90 a barrel. Prices for shoppers rose to 3.8% over the past year, the hottest reading since May 2023. The Senate confirmed Kevin Warsh as the new Federal Reserve Chair by a 54 to 45 […]

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