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Morning Energy Blog – March 8, 2016

Equities and the Economy It wasn’t much, but it was enough to sustain the rally for a 5th consecutive session, at least for the Dow and S&P 500. The Dow gained 67 points closing at 17,074 and the S&P added 2 to 2,002 (note that recently we’ve been bumping up at the 2,000 resistance level). […]

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Morning Energy Blog – March 7, 2016

Equities and the Economy U.S. stocks wobbled on Friday but managed to close in the green and mark a 4th session of gains. The Dow closed up 63 breaking the 17,000 market (whoo-hoo!) closing at 17,007, the S&P 500 added 7 points to close right at 2,000 (resistance) and the Nasdaq finished 10 points higher […]

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Morning Energy Blog – March 4, 2016

Equities and the Economy U.S. equities chalked up a third day of gains yesterday with the Dow closing 45 points higher at 16,944, the S&P 500 adding 7 to 1,993 and the Nasdaq ending up 4 points at 4,707. Once again, the price action was positive with the indexes trading negative the first half of […]

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Morning Energy Blog – March 3, 2016

Equities and the Economy U.S. stocks closed marginally higher yesterday, but in my opinion it was quite a positive performance. The reasoning is after coming off a huge up day on Tuesday stocks didn’t pull back, even after trading slightly in the red for most of the day. That’s called good price action. For the […]

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Morning Energy Blog – March 2, 2016

Equities and the Economy I’ve been telling you the 1,950 level basis the S&P 500 was resistance, and we got through that yesterday and when we did it was as if a wound up tightly spring was released and we rocketed up with U.S. equities having a great day! So how good was it? Just […]

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Morning Energy Blog – March 1, 2016

Equities and the Economy U.S. stocks took a small step backward yesterday. The Dow fell 123 points, 0.73%, to 16,517, the S&P 500 ended off 16, 0.82%, to 1,932 and the Nasdaq fell 0.71%, 32, to 4,558. Really just a flesh wound. Looking at the indexes from a longer term perspective, which is how most […]

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Morning Energy Blog – February 29, 2016

Equities and the Economy It was a sedate day Friday with U.S. stocks beginning the day on a positive note trading higher but ending mixed held back by marginally lower oil prices but more so a stronger dollar. When the closing bell rang the Dow was off 57 to 16,640, the S&P 500 settled 4 […]

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Morning Energy Blog – February 25, 2016

Equities and the Economy Today’s Blog will be shorter than normal because I had a meeting this morning which is delaying the Blog. U.S. equities closed marginally higher yesterday with the Dow up 53 points to 16,485, the S&P 500 closing 9 at 1,929 and the Nasdaq up 39 to 4,542. That isn’t much, but […]

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Morning Energy Blog – February 24, 2016

Equities and the Economy After a three day hot streak the dice came up 7 and U.S. stocks crapped out with the Dow losing 189 points, 1.14%, ending at 16,432, the S&P 500 fell 25 points, 1.26%, to 1,921 and the Nasdaq closed down 67, 1.46%, at 4,504. I bet you can guess what’s being […]

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Morning Energy Blog – February 23, 2016

Equities and the Economy After a day of bivouacking on Friday U.S. stocks surged yesterday with the Dow popping a very nice 229 points, 1.40%, ending at 16,621, the S&P 500 rose 28, 1.47%, to 1,946 and the Nasdaq closed up 67, 1.48%, at 4,571. As it has for months now, Wall St. followed the […]

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