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Europe: +44 (0) 207 198 1634 Equities and the Economy After a ten day wild roller coaster ride U.S. equities took the day off yesterday with all the major indexes not doing much. While the Dow closed 14 points higher at 16,790, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq closed lower. The former lost 7 points ending at 1,980 and the latter fell […]
Equities and the Economy Good morning. Make that the last 5 out of 6. I’m talking about the number of days U.S. stocks have traded lower. The Dow closed down 79 points, 0.48%, at 16,201, the S&P 500 fell 7, 0.34%, to 1,932 and the Nasdaq was off 18, 0.38%, ending at 4,734. My friends, […]
Equities and the Economy Good morning. After six sessions of negative news, for that is how long this losing streak has lasted, I finally get to relay (and I bet you already know what I’m going to say!) U.S. equities had a good day. No, they had a great day! In fact, on a percentage […]
Equities and the Economy Good morning and happy National Talk in an Elevator Day. U.S equities pared early losses to end little changed yesterday with the Dow closing down 5 points at 17,746, the S&P 500 literally closing flat to Wednesday at 2,109 and the Nasdaq closing up 17 at 5,129. The big report yesterday […]
Good morning and happy National Chicken Wing Day. After a day of global equity destruction that dragged the Dow to its lowest level in 6 months equities in Europe and the U.S. bounced back yesterday with the bellwether S&P 500 leading the way rising 1..23%, a nice 25 points, ending at 2,093. The Dow and […]
Equities and the Economy Good morning and happy National Anisette Day. Ok. Let’s just get it out of the way first. Greece. With the Greek referendum scheduled for Sunday and despite overtures from the Greeks, the Brussels Group has ceased negotiations until after the referendum. It makes total sense. If the Greeks vote “Yes” then […]
Equities and the Economy Good morning and happy National Peanut Butter Cookie Day. There were a few fundamental economic reports out yesterday which pushed stocks higher. The most important was the Commerce Department’s Retail Sales report which showed May sales were up 1.2% which although below economists’ forecast of 1.3%, were up for the third […]
Equities and the Economy Good morning and happy Repeat Day. Good morning and happy Repeat Day. It was another choppy day with day traders pushing the market up and down looking for stops, which they didn’t find. The range of the day was 167 points but stocks ended up pretty much unchanged from Thursday with […]
Equities and the Economy Good morning and happy National Bubba Day. U.S. stocks eked out gains yesterday with the Dow closing 29 points higher at 18,040, the S&P 500 adding 5 to 2,112 and the Nasdaq climbing 13 to 5,083. Economic data was mixed starting with consumer spending flat in April. This zero growth followed […]
Good morning and happy National Heimlich Maneuver Day. We needed a Heimlich Friday for the marked choked. The Dow fell 115 points to 18,101, the S&P 500 lost 13 ending at 2,107 and the Nasdaq fell 28 closing at 5,032. All of the indexes lost 0.6%. For the week they lost 1.2%, 0.9% and 0.4%, […]
