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Morning Energy Blog – August 2, 2016

Equities and the Economy Maybe it’s the dog days of summer, but U.S. equities have really been sedate of late, albeit the major indexes are indeed bivouacking near record highs. The S&P 500 did manage to hit a new high intraday but could not hold onto the gain and closed down 3 points at 2,171. […]

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Morning Energy Blog – July 29, 2016

Equities and the Economy: Yesterday was yet another soggy day for U.S. equities with the Dow falling for the 4th consecutive session closing down 16 points at 18,456, the S&P 500 up 3 to 2,170 and the Nasdaq finishing 15 points higher at 5,155. After posting a sharp rally in June and early July the […]

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Morning Energy Blog – July 28, 2016

Equities and the Economy: It was, as Yogi Berra said, “déjà vu all over again” on Wall Street yesterday with the Dow and S&P 500 pretty much closing flat to Tuesday’s closing numbers and the Nasdaq rising. The Dow lost 2 points to 18,472 and the S&P fell 3 points to 2,167. Total chatter. The […]

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Morning Energy Blog – July 27, 2016

Equities and the Economy: The Dow and S&P 500 were lackluster yesterday with the former off 19 points to 18,474 and the latter up a single point to 2,169 but the Nasdaq got a nice pop, thanks to Apple, rising 12 points, 0.24%, to 5,110 and at a new 2016 high. The “fruit” company posted […]

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Morning Energy Blog – July 26 ,2016

Equities and the Economy I should travel more often. I’m out of the office and stocks rally. Yesterday was my second full day in the office in two weeks and equities fall. Yesterday the Dow fell 78 points, 0.4%, closing at 18,493, the S&P 500 lost 7 points, 0.3%, ending at 2,168 and the Nasdaq […]

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Morning Energy Blog for July 25, 2016

Equities and the Economy:  I’ve been out of the office travelling on business for the last four business days and based upon what the stock market has done, I should travel more. Last week both the S&P 500 and Dow set new record highs and the Nasdaq closed at a 2016 high. On Friday the […]

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Morning Energy Blog for July 19, 2016

Equities and the Economy: U.S. stocks eked out very small gains yesterday but it was enough to push the Dow and S&P 500 to fresh all-time closing highs and although the Nasdaq didn’t set a record high, it did close at its high for 2016. The numbers were Dow up 17 points to 18,533, the […]

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Morning Energy Blog for July 18, 2016

Equities and the economy:  As is said in Texas, I’m back in the saddle after being out of the office last week and it’s times like these that give me the opportunity to look a little more at forest rather than the trees. A week ago Friday’s Blog noted that on Thursday, July 7th, the […]

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Morning Energy Blog – July 8, 2016

Equities and the Economy For a change, U.S. stocks were pretty quiet yesterday closing mixed. While the Dow and S&P had marginal losses, 23 points to 17,986 and 2 points 2,098, respectively, the Nasdaq had a decent day rising 18 points ending at 4,877. It could have been worse for the Dow was down 100 […]

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Morning Energy Blog – July 7, 2016

Equities and the Economy If you were an equity day trader yesterday it was a chop fest and most probably you lost money. After opening lower and being down as much as 127 points around noon eastern, stocks found some buyers, moved higher all afternoon and closed at their highest levels of the day. The […]

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