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Europe: +44 (0) 207 198 1634 Equities and the Economy As stated in my blog yesterday, Tuesday was a tough day on Wall Street. Yesterday was a bloodbath. U.S. stocks sold off with the Dow closing down 252 points, 1.42%, at 17,478, the S&P 500 fell 30, 1.42%, to 2,050 and the Nasdaq was the big loser closing down 1.66%, 85 […]
Equities and the Economy It was a tough day on Wall Street yesterday with the Dow falling 158 points, 0.89%, closing at 17,730, the S&P 500 down 23, 1.08%, to 2,080 and the Nasdaq fell 33, 0.65%, finishing at 5,123. You can blame the energy sector for dragging the indexes lower, specifically oil prices which […]
Equities and the Economy U.S. stocks bounced back nicely yesterday from initial knee jerk selling on the news of Turkey shooting down a Russian military jet. In the morning Dow futures were down over a hundred points but rallied back nicely with all the major bourses closing in the green, marginally, but in the green. […]
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Energy-Related Carbon Dioxide Emissions at the State Level, 2000-13 The United States has a diverse energy landscape that is reflected in differences in state-level emissions profiles. Since 2005, energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell in 48 states (including the District of Columbia) and rose in 3 states, on a per […]
Equities and the Economy It was a very, very sedate day on Wall Street yesterday with not just the major indexes ending very close to their Wednesday closes but there was also very little volatility. Getting the numbers out of the way, the Dow closed down 4 at 17,733, the S&P 500 fell 3 to […]
Equities and the Economy Good morning. Call it a late year rally. Call it a holiday rally. Call it whatever you want. But call it good. Yesterday the Dow posted a super day rising a big 248 points, 1.42%, closing at 17,737, the S&P 500 rose 34 points, 1.64%, to 2.084 and the Nasdaq was […]
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report EIA’s Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report (WNGSR) publishes weekly natural gas storage inventories by region. Natural gas storage levels have been high and recently reached a record 3,978 trillion cubic feet as of Friday, November 6. In an effort to better illustrate regional storage trends, […]
Equities and the Economy Good morning. It was an ugly day for U.S. stocks yesterday. The Dow fell 254 points, 1.44%, ending at 17,448, the S&P was off 29, 1.40%, to 2,046 and the Nasdaq closed down 62, 1.22%, at 5,005. The S&P closed lower for the 6th time in 7 sessions. As I’ve been […]
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report Working natural gas in storage reached 3,929 billion cubic feet (Bcf) as of October 30, according to EIA’s latest Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report. This level matches the previous weekly record of 3,929 Bcf set November 2, 2012. Although October marks the traditional end of […]
Equities and the Economy As I suspected, U.S. equities did nothing yesterday closing ever so marginally lower with investors waiting for today’s Labor Department’s Employment Situation report for October. The Dow fell a meaningless 5 points to 17,863, the S&P 500 closed down an also meaningless 2 to and even 2,100 and the Nasdaq lost […]
