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Morning Energy Blog – August 3, 2015

Equities and the Economy Good morning and happy National Watermelon Day. U.S. equities ended the week on a weak note with all three major indexes posting marginal losses. The Dow ended down 56 points, .032%, the S&P 500 fell 5, 0.22%, to 2,104 and the Nasdaq was off a single digit to 5,128. Energy stocks […]

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Morning Energy Blog – July 31, 2015

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 […]

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Morning Energy Blog – July 29, 2015

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 […]

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Morning Energy Blog – July 28, 2015

Equities and the Economy Good morning and happy Buffalo Soldiers Day (Bob Marley. Eh, mon). On the heels of a massive capitulation of the Chinese stock market equities around the world got crushed yesterday including, unfortunately, U.S. equities. When you woke up yesterday China’s Shanghai index had closed down a huge 8.48% (biggest one day […]

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Morning Energy Blog – July 27, 2015

Good morning.  It’s been almost a week since the last Morning Energy Blog being I was travelling the last four business days with my last report last Monday reflecting Friday July 17th’s price action. As a matter of reference, on that day the Nasdaq closed at a record high of 5,201, the Dow was at […]

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Morning Energy Blog – July 17, 2015

Equities and the Economy Good morning and happy Wrong Way Corrigan Day (Google that). It was a good day on Wall Street yesterday with major indexes around the globe closing higher including those here in the U.S. The Dow climbed 70 to 18,120, the S&P 500 added 17 to 2,124 and the Nasdaq rose 64 […]

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Morning Energy Blog – July 16, 2015

Equities and the Economy Good morning and happy Corn Fritters Day. After four up sessions U.S. equities gave up a smidgeon yesterday with the Dow off 4 points to 18,050, the S&P 500 down 2 to 2,107 and the Nasdaq closing 6 points lower at 5,099. All the indexes were nicely in the green early […]

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Morning Energy Blog – July 15, 2015

Equities and the Economy Good morning. On below average volume U.S. equities posted their 4th consecutive session of gains yesterday with the Dow closing up 76 points (0.42%) at 18,054, the S&P 500 adding 9 (0.45%) to 2,109 and the Nasdaq up 33 (0.66%) to 5,105. Yesterday’s Dow performance was enough to get the index […]

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Morning Energy Blog – July 14, 2015

Equities and the Economy Investors sighed a breath of relief as the world averted a Grexit increasing their appetite for risk buying riskier assets and pushing stock prices around the world higher. Oh, and Chinese stocks rose as the government continues to manipulate the stock market there. The day’s gains were broad with the Dow […]

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Morning Energy Blog – July 13, 2015

Equities and the Economy Good morning. Whoo-hoo and whoo again! And again! Financial markets around the world surged on Friday after Greece tabled a fresh package of reforms to creditors with investors taking the developments that the new plan could finally spell the end of the dramatic stand-off that shut the Greek financial system down […]

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