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Morning Energy Blog – April 21, 2015

Equities and the Economy Good morning and happy National Chocolate Chip Covered Cashews Day. After getting pummeled on Friday I guess investors had a chance to think about the markets over the weekend and concluded things weren’t really as bad the price action warranted that day and came in Monday morning buying. The Dow jumped […]

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Morning Energy Blog – April 20, 2015

Equities and the Economy Good morning and happy Lima Bean Respect Day. That’s all I could afford to eat this weekend after what happened to my portfolio on Friday! Equities around the world just got obliterated on Friday starting in Asia with the Chinese government announcing regulations which expand short selling and limiting the financing […]

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Morning Energy Blog – April 17, 2015

Equities and the Economy Good morning and happy National Cheeseball Day. U.S. equities ended very slightly lower yesterday than Wednesday with the Dow off 7 to 18,106, the S&P 500 down 2 to 2,105 and the Nasdaq ending 3 lower to 5,008. The Dow was up 57 points at one time during the day but […]

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Morning Energy Blog – April 13, 2015

Equities and the Economy Good morning and happy National Scrabble Day. It was a nice day for your portfolio on Friday with the Dow logging a hefty 99 points gain (0.55%) closing at 18,058, the S&P 500 rose 11 (0.50%) to 2,102 and the Nasdaq climbing 22 (0.4%) to 4,996. Note the Dow is once […]

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Morning Energy Blog – March 2, 2015

Equities and the Economy Good morning. U.S. equities ended last week on a sour note with the Dow losing 82 points ending at 18,133, the S&P 500 lost 6 to 2,105 and the Nasdaq ended down 24 to 4,964. OK, now for the good news. For the month February was outstanding! The Dow jumped 5.64% […]

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Morning Energy Blog – February 17, 2015

Equities and the Economy Good morning. As I’m sure you know, yesterday the U.S. stock market was closed for President’s Day so we need to go back to Friday for the last price action. On that day stocks closed marginally higher with the Dow climbing 47 points to 18,019 and the S&P 500 rising 9 […]

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Morning Energy Blog – February 2, 2015

Good morning. The only person who might be feeling worse than Seattle Seahawk’s fans is Tiger Woods. Why? Because on Friday he shot his worst round ever as a professional golfer, an 82, and also his worst ever 9 hole score, a 44. Now it sure would be a lot of fun to talk about […]

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Morning Energy Blog – January 21, 2015

Equities and the Economy Good morning. After being closed for three days U.S. markets reopened yesterday and by judging the numbers at the close, Dow up 4 to 17,515, S&P 500 up 3 to 2,023 and Nasdaq up 20 to 4,655, one might think it was a yawner of a day. Au contraire. It was […]

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Morning Energy Blog – January 20, 2015

Equities and the Economy Good morning. As I’m sure you are fully aware, the U.S. markets were closed yesterday for the holiday so let’s review happened Friday and last week. In summary it was a roller-coaster week. On Friday the Dow shot up 191 points to 17,512, the S&P 500 climbed 27 to 2,019 and […]

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Morning Energy Blog – January 5, 2015

Good morning. Welcome back one and all. I truly hope you had a wonderful holiday and could spend time with your loves ones. The last Morning Energy Report was on Tuesday December 30th reflecting the price action of the day before so let’s see what’s happened in 4 calendar days and 3 trading days. Last […]

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