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Morning Energy Blog – September 9, 2015

Equities and the Economy Good morning. And Whoo-hoo! Boy did we need a day like yesterday! After days and weeks of getting mostly beaten up U.S. equities posted big, big gains yesterday with the Dow rising 390 points, 2.4%, to 16,492 with all 30 stocks in the index closing up. The S&P 500 posted a […]

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Morning Energy Blog – September 8, 2015

Equities and the Economy Good morning. This is probably old news to you by now but it was a horrible Friday for equities globally. Focusing on the U.S., the Dow fell 272 points, 1.7%, closing at 16,102, the S&P 500 lost 30 points, 1.53%, to 1,921 and the Nasdaq dropped 50 points, 1.1%, to 4,684. […]

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Morning Energy Blog – September 4, 2015

Equities and the Economy The day started out very nicely yesterday with the Dow up 139 points in the morning but around 10:05 AM CDT investors mead an about-face and turning cautious and began selling and the day ended mixed with the Dow gaining 23 to 16,375, the S&P 500 up 3 ending at 1,951 […]

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Morning Energy Blog – September 3, 2015

Equites and the Economy U.S. stocks bounced back in a big way yesterday recovering a significant portion of the huge losses experienced Tuesday with the Dow jumping 290 points, 1.82%, ending at 16,351, the S&P 500 climbed 35 points, 1.84%, ending at 1.949 and the more volatile Nasdaq popped a big 2.46% rising 114 points […]

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Morning Energy Blog – September 2, 2015

Equities and the Economy Saying August 2015 was a lousy month would be an understatement for it was the worst for Wall Street since 2012 erasing some $5 trillion in global equity value. Unfortunately, September picked up right where August ended. All the major indexes suffered heavy, triple digit losses with investors fleeing riskier assets […]

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Morning Energy Blog – September 1, 2015

Equites and the Economy Good morning. U.S. stocks ended August on a sour note with the Dow losing 115 points, 0.69%, closing at 16,528, the S&P 500 fell 17, 0.85%, to 1,972 and the Nasdaq was the big loser of the day falling 1.06%, 51 points, to 4,777. The month of August can be a […]

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Morning Energy Blog – August 31, 2015

Equities and the Economy Good morning. U.S. stocks closed with a whimper on Friday. And I’ll take it. After two big up days and retracing back into my resistance area I was worried about sellers coming in especially with the weekend was coming up. The huge and rapid drop in the major indexes did very […]

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Morning Energy Blog – August 28, 2015

Equities and the Economy Good morning. Yesterday we had a second consecutive great day on Wall Street with all the three major indexes closing materially higher. The Dow rose 369 points, 2.27%, ending at 16,654, the S&P 500 added 47 points, 2.4%, to 1,988 and the Nasdaq closed up 115, 2.5%, at 4,812. Global equity […]

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Morning Energy Blog – August 27, 2015

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 […]

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Morning Energy Blog – August 26, 2015

Equities and the Economy Good morning. Horrible, horrible, horrible price action yesterday. When I came in yesterday Dow futures were up 523 points. When I finished writing this Report the Dow had eased off to being up 283 points. When closing bell rang all the gains evaporated with the Dow finishing down 205 points,1.29%, at […]

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