Why The Next Four Days May Be Important For The Stock Market

The ability of the Dow Jones Industrials to rally from being down 850 points in Thursday’s session to close down just 350 brightened the outlook for Friday’s session. All of the market averages, even the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100, were higher on Friday.

Last week’s action caused some surprising improvements in the overall market outlook and that could be important to the negative investor sentiment as we start the new year. Let’s look at last week’s numbers.