The Huddle

Energy Stocks Lead Thursday’s Gains, Weekly Jobless Claims Total 340,000 the Lowest Since Start of the Pandemic, Apple to Change Payment Rules for Netflix, Spotify in an Antitrust Concession, Chewy Reports Earnings, and Bond King Bill Gross Says Bonds are "Investment Garbage"

Small Caps Lead Stocks Slightly Higher, ADP Says Private Payrolls Increase by Only 374,000 in August, OPEC+ Agrees to Keep its Current Policy of Gradual Oil Output, Allbirds Files for IPO, and Manufacturing Expands for 15th Straight Month

Stocks Trade Flat Tuesday, Consumer Confidence Drops to Six-Month Low, South Korea Limits Apple and Google's Control Over App Store Payments, China to Ban Kids From Playing Online Games for More than 3-Hours Per Day Week, and Robinhood Stock Drops After SEC Chair Hints at Banning Order Flow Sales

Growth and Defensives Lead the Way to Another All-Time High on Major Indexes, Zoom Reports Earnings, Hurricane Ida Leaves Nearly all of New Orleans Without Power, Affirm Agrees to Buy-Now-Pay-Later Deal With Amazon, and PayPal Explores Stock Trading On Its Platform

Small Caps and Energy Lead Stocks to Close Higher Friday, Fed Powell Sees Tapering by the end of the Year, Consumer Spending Slows in July, Consumer Sentiment Falls to a Near-Decade Low, and The Supreme Court Rules that the National Eviction Ban Unconstitutional

Stocks Fall Thursday, The Bureau of Economic Analysis Releases Q2 GDP Estimate, St Louis Fed President Bullard Wants Central Bank to Get Going on Tapering, Google, Microsoft, and Others Plan to Spend Billions on Cybersecurity, and Ulta Beauty Reports Earnings

Stocks Drift Higher, the House passed a $3.5T Framework in Party Line Vote, and Dicks Sporting Goods, Toll Brothers, and Salesforce.com Report Earnings

Stocks Advance Slightly to Extend Rally, Disney Reaches Deal with Unions to Require Covid-19 Vaccinations for Employees, U.S. Treasury Says it Won’t Target Non-Brokers on Crypto Legislation, Best Buy Reports Earnings, and U.S. New Homes Sales Rise in July

Stocks Rally Monday, FDA Grants Full Approval to Pfizer-BioNTech's Covid Shot, Proposition 22 in California Ruled Unconstitutional, Dividend Payout Reaches $1.4 Trillion in 2021, and PayPal Launches a Cryptocurrency Service in the U.K.

Stocks Rally to End the Week, Applied Materials and Deere Report Earnings, $560B Wiped off China Markets in a Week, and Tesla Plans to Build a Humanoid Robot Prototype by 2022