Kyle Woodley
Kyle Woodley is the Editor-in-Chief of WealthUp, a site dedicated to improving the personal finances and financial literacy of people of all ages. He also writes the weekly The Weekend Tea newsletter, which covers both news and analysis about spending, saving, investing, the economy and more.
Kyle was previously the Senior Investing Editor for Kiplinger.com, and the Managing Editor for InvestorPlace.com before that. His work has appeared in several outlets, including Yahoo! Finance, MSN Money, Barchart, The Globe & Mail and the Nasdaq. He also has appeared as a guest on Fox Business Network and Money Radio, among other shows and podcasts, and he has been quoted in several outlets, including MarketWatch, Vice and Univision. He is a proud graduate of The Ohio State University, where he earned a BA in journalism.
You can check out his thoughts on the markets (and more) at @KyleWoodley.
Latest articles by Kyle Woodley
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Stock Market Today (9/2/21): Jobless Claims Drop, Energy Stocks Pop
Stock Market Today Pandemic-low unemployment claims Thursday lit a fire under energy stocks and helped the S&P 500 and Nasdaq squeeze out new highs.
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Stock Market Today (9/1/21): Comms, Defensive Stocks Rise After Weak Payrolls Report
Stock Market Today The Nasdaq hit new highs Wednesday, but the Dow declined, as ADP reported that August payroll growth came in well below forecasts.
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Stock Market Today (8/31/21): S&P Up 7 Straight Months, But September Looms
Stock Market Today The S&P 500 closed August higher, but this relentless bull market is about to butt heads with a seasonal streak-buster.
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Stock Market Today (8/27/21): Taper Tantrum? Not Today!
Stock Market Today Fed Chair Jerome Powell indicated Friday that tapering likely would begin before year's end. A prepared Wall Street bid stocks higher anyway.
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Stock Market Today (8/26/21): Stocks Retreat From Recent Highs
Stock Market Today All but one sector finished in the red Thursday amid Fed stimulus concerns, a string of ugly earnings reports and Middle East unrest.
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Stock Market Today (8/25/21): Financials Lead as S&P 500, Nasdaq Set Fresh Highs
Stock Market Today Upward pressure on Treasury rates Wednesday helped spur gains in the financial sector on a modest up day for the major indexes.
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Stock Market Today (8/23/21): S&P 500, Nasdaq Hit Record Highs on Pfizer Vaccine Approval
Stock Market Today The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine became the first to earn full FDA approval Monday, igniting a broad rally in stocks.
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Stock Market Today (8/20/21): Stocks Snap Skid But Suffer Weekly Loss
Stock Market Today The market enjoyed widespread gains Friday, with everything from growthy tech to defensive utilities enjoying in the rally.
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Stock Market Today (8/18/21): Fed Signals It Could Pare Back Stimulus in 2021
Stock Market Today The Dow suffered its worst loss in a month after FOMC minutes revealed the Fed was planning for a possible bond-purchase taper later this year.
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Stock Market Today (8/17/21): Stocks Recoil as Retail Sales Retreat
Stock Market Today The major indexes all took a step back Tuesday in the wake of a disappointing July retail sales report.
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Stock Market Today (8/16/21): Dow, S&P Shrug Off China Weakness, Afghan Upheaval
Stock Market Today Stocks slumped early Monday on slower-than-expected China growth and Middle East turmoil, but the Dow and S&P 500 recovered to set new highs.
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Stock Market Today (8/11/21): Another Dow Record as Core Inflation Starts to Ease
Stock Market Today Headline inflation for July was on par with expectations, but lower-than-expected core CPI gains helped lift the Dow and S&P 500 to new highs Wednesday.
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Stock Market Today (8/10/21): Infrastructure Progress Sends Dow, S&P 500 to New Highs
Stock Market Today The Senate's passage of a roughly $1 trillion infrastructure bill provided a tailwind to materials, industrials and energy stocks Tuesday.
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Stock Market Today (8/9/21): Markets Coast as COVID Variant Cases Climb
Stock Market Today Growing signs that the COVID-19 delta variant could be hindering the global economy weighed on oil Monday, but the major indexes finished mixed.
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Stock Market Today (08/06/21): Dow Hits Record on Rousing Jobs Report
Stock Market Today Friday's better-than-expected July nonfarm payrolls release lifted some stocks, but hindered others, as investors wondered whether the Fed would begin tapering asset purchases.
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Stock Market Today (08/04/21): Dow Droops on Jobs Miss, Interest-Rate Uncertainty
Stock Market Today ADP's monthly employment report came in well below expectations Wednesday, injecting some doubt into the market ahead of Friday's July jobs report.
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Stock Market Today (08/03/21): Stocks Shake Off Delta Doubts, S&P 500 Tags New High
Stock Market Today The S&P 500 set yet another new all-time high Tuesday as investors refused to hit the panic button over resurgent COVID caseloads.
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Stock Market Today (08/02/21): Dow Stumbles After Sprinting Out of the Blocks
Stock Market Today Weak economic data sent the Dow and S&P 500 to small losses on Monday, though the Nasdaq managed a marginal gain.
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Stock Market Today (7/29/21): Dow, S&P 500 Back Atop the Mountain
Stock Market Today More stellar earnings and a glass-is-half-full view of GDP and unemployment data helped drive stocks to fresh highs Thursday.
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Stock Market Today (7/28/21): Stocks Finish Mixed as Fed Stays the Course
Stock Market Today The Federal Reserve kept interest rates at near-zero and seemed loath to taper asset purchases, giving stocks a small afternoon lift in an uneven Wednesday session.
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Wedbush: Apple Earnings a 'Gold Medal' Performance
stocks Apple blew past its fiscal third-quarter results in what Wedbush's Dan Ives calls a "drop the mic" quarter, though AAPL stock hardly budged.
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Stock Market Today (7/27/21): COVID, China Rattle the Rally
Stock Market Today Fallout from a Chinese crackdown on private businesses, as well as reports the CDC would recommend mask usage indoors, pulled stocks from their recent highs Tuesday.
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Stock Market Today (7/26/21): Major Indexes Quietly Etch New Highs
Stock Market Today The Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq all squeaked out fresh highs in a fairly quiet Monday session. Much more explosive was the cryptocurrency space.
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Stock Market Today (7/22/21): Stocks Buck Surprise Jump in Jobless Claims
Stock Market Today The latest weekly unemployment-benefit filings were disappointingly high, but the major indexes still managed a red-to-green session Thursday.
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