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Europe: +44 (0) 207 198 1634 Equities and the Economy: • Trump threatens to shut down government if Congress doesn’t fund Mexico border wall. • Stocks retreat. Investors turned cautious yesterday after President Trump stated at a rally in Phoenix Tuesday evening that he would be willing to not raise the debt ceiling, i.e., shut down the government, if Congress didn’t […]
Equities and the Economy: • Stocks end little changed. • Volume remains below average. After logging its largest two-week decline since last September the Dow managed to post a meager gain yesterday closing up 29 points at 21,704. Similarly, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq ended little changed from Friday’s close with the former finishing up […]
Equities and the Economy: • Buy dip mode prevails. • S&P moves 1% for first time in 3 months. As has been the mode for about 9 years now, investors continue to buy price dips. After posting a lousy week investors jumped back into the market yesterday with the Dow rising a very nice 135 […]
Equities and the Economy: • Stocks slip on healthcare vote delay. • Google gets hit with record fine. U.S. stocks closed lower yesterday with the Dow falling 99 points, 0.5%, to 21,311, the S&P 500 sliding 20, 0.8%, to 2,419 and the Nasdaq getting whacked closing down a big 101 points, 1.6%, at 6,147. Here […]
Equities and the Economy: • Chop continues. • Investors hedging their equity bets. Although the Dow posted a gain after 4 days of losses of 15 points to 21,410 and the S&P 500 closed a point higher at 2,439, equities over the last month have really done very little. For the record, the Nasdaq yesterday […]
Equities and the Economy: • S&P and Nasdaq close at record highs. • Global equities trading at record levels. U.S. stocks continue their grind higher marking 6 consecutive sessions of higher closes with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq ending at fresh record highs. The S&P 500 rose 11 points finishing at 2,415 and the Nasdaq […]
Equities and the Economy: Fed raises interest rates as widely expected. Fed guidance dovish. For the third time since the financial crisis began, the second time in three months and the first time this year, the Fed raised interest rates. Yesterday increase was a widely expected ¼% taking the benchmark overnight interest rate to a […]
Equities and the Economy: U.S. equities close marginally lower. Market looking for a ¼% hike in interest rates today. U.S. stocks closed marginally lower yesterday dragged down by the Asian markets and energy stocks with crude oil prices closing lower on considerably below average volume due to winter storm Stella. The Dow closed down 44 […]
Equities and the Economy: • Stocks close lower. • Lofty forward P/E ratios and higher interest rates not compatible. Yesterday stocks retreated on what I consider normal price action. The Dow fell 51 points closing below 21,000 at 20,954, the S&P 500 lost 8 points to 2,375 and the Nasdaq dropped 22 points to 5,849. […]
Equities and the Economy: • U.S. stocks eke out gain on Friday. • Continue weekly gains. U.S. equities closed barely in the green on Friday with the Dow up 3 points to 21,005, the S&P 500 gained a single point to 2,383 and the Nasdaq added 10 to 5,871. Although we saw a big pullback […]
