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Europe: +44 (0) 207 198 1634 Good Morning. We got back from a wild week yesterday with everyone wondering if the bears would emerge from their hibernation over the weekend and pick up where they left off last Thursday. Well the market worked really hard to not make a lot of noise and not wake the bears yesterday and stocks moved […]
Good morning. Death by a thousand cuts. That’s what’s happening to U.S. stocks. Well folks, the correction is in full swing with the Dow closing down another 223 points lower, 1.35%, at 16,321, the S&P 500 losing another 31 points, 1.65%, to 1,875 and the Nasdaq down another 63, 1.46%, to 4,214. I don’t know […]
Good morning. Investing in equities is all about growth and economic reports, or a lack thereof, and are killing stocks taking a toll on investors. And not just here in the U.S. but globally. On Friday an index of global equities hit a 7 month low and oil slumped to a 4 month low (more […]
Good morning. On Wednesday we saw a light at the end of the tunnel and believed it was the Fed holding it. It turned out not be the Fed but a train. Wham! We got run over. Serious damage. Carnage. Triage applied. No survivors with the Dow losing the most points it has in a […]
Good morning. Well the liquidation and correction is in full swing. Is it the curse of October? Yesterday the market just got pounded extending its losses from Monday with the Dow falling a very material 273 points, 1.60%, the S&P 500 down 30, 1.51%, to 1935 and the Nasdaq closing at 4,385, down 70, 1.56%. […]
Good morning. And it was a good weekend after Friday’s price action. Although equities did not recoup all their losses from Thursday they made a nice rebound. For example, the Dow rose 167 points, 0.99%, closing at 17,113 recovering 60% of Thursday’s decline. The S&P 500 climbed 17 points, 0.86%, to 1,983 and the Nasdaq […]
Good morning. I wonder if someone has the Fed meeting bugged. I mean for the last week and a day the equity market were lackluster chopping around looking for direction. That was the way we started out the day yesterday trading on either side of unchanged until about 10:20 CDT and then zoom, off to […]
Good morning. Yesterday was bifurcated. If you were AT&T or ExxonMobil or other members of the Dow you did ok with the Dow (which is 30 stocks) closing up 44 points at 17,031. If you owned the S&P 500 index you yawned with it closing down 1 at 1,984. But if you owned the Nasdaq […]
Good morning. Stocks closed lower on Friday with the Dow falling 61 and below 17,000 to 16,982, the S7P 500 off 12 to 1,986 and the Nasdaq closing at 4,568, down 24. This is the first week the major indexes have closed down (S&P down 1.2%) after 5 weeks of gains. Let’s not forget though […]
Good morning. Equities have been chopping around lately. On Friday they rose and yesterday they fell. The Dow ended down 26 at 17,111, the S&P 500 lost 6 to 2,002 and the Nasdaq ended off 9 at 4,492. Chatter. With the recent drop in oil prices energy equities have been getting whacked with the energy […]
