Noisy.

ANGLES. · Oct 22, 2023 · 6m

It started out so well. There was green all over the board for a while with earnings mostly looking very perky. But in the end, sentiment was overwhelmed by the noise of higher interest rates, Middle East fears, bedlam in Congress, a government shutdown once again looming on the horizon, fears that consumer spending - and thereby inflation - is refusing to die and some rather nasty projections about the global financial system.

Stocks began the week by jumping higher at the open on Monday and maintained their gains for the rest of the session, boosted both by a continued strong start to Q3…