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Stock Market Weekly update -Feb 1

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The S&P 500 ended mostly flat last week, though with large up & down swings, as the Fed kept interest rates unchanged and we got earnings from big Tech.  Small-caps dropped. MU was up for a 7th consecutive week!  NFLX dumped for yet another week -10 weeks now? MSFT had a huge drop after earnings, continuing the downtrend which started when they last reported earnings in October. META rallied on earnings.  Gold and Silver crashed after a massive multi-week rally. Correspondingly, the Dollar had a late week rally after seeing  a big drop for 2 weeks. Bitcoin/ Crypto saw a huge drop.  US consumer confidence dives to a more than 11-1/2-year low The week ahead:    4TH week of Earnings - AMZN, GOOGL & more Monthly Jobs report Schwab Weekly Trader's Outlook    Edward Jones recap The 10 year Interest rate -mostly flat at 4.24% The Dollar - dropped slightly to 97.15  Gold - down a bit after a huge rally. $4988 Oil - up agai...