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Morning Energy Blog – March 4, 2016

Equities and the Economy U.S. equities chalked up a third day of gains yesterday with the Dow closing 45 points higher at 16,944, the S&P 500 adding 7 to 1,993 and the Nasdaq ending up 4 points at 4,707. Once again, the price action was positive with the indexes trading negative the first half of […]

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Morning Energy Blog – February 26, 2016

Equities and the Economy Another good day! Like’n it! The Dow continued its climb closing up 212 points, 1.29%, at 16,697, the S&P 500 ended up 22, 1.15%, at 1,952 and the Nasdaq added 39, 0.87%, to 4,582. The second consecutive day of gains for stocks was helped by a 3% jump in oil prices […]

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Morning Energy Blog – February 19, 2016

Equities and the Economy After three days of big gains U.S. equities took the day off yesterday trading on either side of unchanged all day. The Dow fell 41 points to 16,413, the S&P 500 lost 9 to 1,918 and the Nasdaq ended off 46, 1.02%, at 4,488. The latter got hit with the biotechnology […]

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Morning Energy Blog – February 18, 2016

Equities and the Economy Whoo-hoo! Yesterday we had our first three day win streak in 2016, and biggest three day gain since August, with all the major indexes materially rising helped by stronger oil prices and some encouraging economic news. The Dow screamed higher by a big 258 points, 1.59%, to 16,454, the S&P 500 […]

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Morning Energy Blog – February 12, 2016

Equities and Economy Stocks tumbled yesterday as the Dow fell for the 5th consecutive day closing down 255 points, 1.60%, at 15,660. The S&P 500 lost 23, 1.23%, to 1,829. The Nasdaq fared the best closing down only 0.39%, at 4,267. It could have been, oh, so much worse. At 2:37 EST the Dow was […]

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Morning Energy Blog – February 10, 2016

Equities and the Economy U.S. stocks stabilized yesterday, i.e. stopped falling, in a day of choppy trading. The Dow closed down 13 points at 16,014, the S&P 500 was off a single digit to 1,852 and the Nasdaq fell 15 points to 4,269. We needed this after two days of material weakness. With the lack […]

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Morning Energy Blog – February 8, 2016

Equities and the Economy First of all, I want to congratulate all of you who are reading this at work. Over 1.5 million workers call in sick today, the day after Super Bowl, and millions are late. Maybe it has something to do with the 325 million gallons of beer drank yesterday! I’m sure a […]

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Morning Energy Blog – February 4, 2016

Equities and the Economy Yesterday, the Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq closed at 16,337, 1,913 and 4,504, respectively. Let’s see how this compares to last Friday’s closes which is when we had our last Blog data. Last Friday the Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq closed at 16,466, 1,940 and 4,614, respectively. So we’ve little ground […]

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Morning Energy Blog – January 29, 2016

Equities and the Economy Just like the tires of your car for you in the northeast gaining traction with the ice melting, the U.S. equities market just might be gaining some traction. Yesterday the Dow rose a nice 126 points, 0.79%, to 16,070, the S&P 500 added 10, 0.53%, ending at 1,893 and the Nasdaq […]

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Morning Energy Blog – January 27, 2016

Equities and the Economy Just as generals ordered their men in the Civil War to “hold the line” so did the S&P 500 1,862 to 1,869 “line” of support hold with equities strongly bouncing off that level and putting in a great performance yesterday. The Dow rose a big 282 points, 1.77%, finishing at 16,167, […]

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