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Europe: +44 (0) 207 198 1634 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
There are three important things utilities need to know about wind right now. The first is what the U.S. Energy Information Administration concluded about wind’s role in Clean Power Plan (CPP)-imposed greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) reductions. The second is how to compare today’s record low natural gas prices with today’s record low wind prices. And […]
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, based on Lindoe Offshore Renewables Center In July, American offshore wind developer, Deepwater Wind, installed the first foundation for what is expected to be the first offshore wind farm in the United States. The project will be located three miles southeast of Block Island, Rhode Island. With five turbines totaling […]
Equities and the Economy Good morning and happy National S’mores Day. U.S equities closed lower on Friday for the 7th consecutive day with the Dow falling 47 points to 17,373, the S&P 500 closing down 6 at 2,078 and the Nasdaq off 12 to 5,044. Things though could have been much, much worse for the […]
Equities and the Economy Good morning and happy National Fresh Breath Day. U.S. stocks closed mostly higher yesterday although the Dow was unable to shake off a weak performance by Disney (down 9%,ouch!) and, once again, energy shares. After flipping between gains and losses yesterday the Dow ended off 11 at 17,540 while the S&P […]
