It was another whirlwind of a week in the markets. We anticipate this will continue to be the case until the number of confirmed coronavirus patients peak.

We were hopeful that today was going to be the day that we would experience two consecutive up days in the past six weeks. Unfortunately, that wasn’t meant to be.

You know how I said last week I had 31 pages of notes. This week I have even more.

Unless you’ve been intentionally trying to avoid the news, you undoubtedly know the markets were on another roller coaster of a week.

As all of you know, the coronavirus continues to be front and center in the news and on the minds of many of us.

The markets look to finish a little lower this week on renewed concerns over the newly named COVID-19 coronavirus.

It’s been a tumultuous week as investors are playing a game of tug-o-war between the momentum that carried us into 2020 and the fear of the potential fallout from the coronavirus.

Stocks had a good week with four of the last five days finishing strongly higher. However, the spectre of the coronavirus is making headlines.

While January started off strong, most of its gains were given back this week.

The markets gave back some of the gains this week as investors received mixed economic news, and a pandemic scare that seems to repeat every ten years or so.