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Morning Energy Blog – September 30, 2015

Equities and the Economy After getting unabashedly bludgeoned for 7 trading sessions healthcare stocks rebounded yesterday giving the S&P 500 its first gain in 6 days, although it was hardly something to write home to mom about. The S&P 500 gained a tiny 2 points closing at 1,884, the Dow did marginally better adding 47 […]

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Morning Energy Blog – September 10, 2015

Equities and the Economy Note: tomorrow will be the last Morning Energy Blog until Monday September 21st for I will be travelling on business. Good morning. Once again and too frequent of late, yesterday’s price action was horrible. U.S. equities began the day very nicely with Dow futures up as much as 180 points with […]

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Morning Energy Blog – September 8, 2015

Equities and the Economy Good morning. This is probably old news to you by now but it was a horrible Friday for equities globally. Focusing on the U.S., the Dow fell 272 points, 1.7%, closing at 16,102, the S&P 500 lost 30 points, 1.53%, to 1,921 and the Nasdaq dropped 50 points, 1.1%, to 4,684. […]

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Morning Energy Blog – September 4, 2015

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 […]

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Morning Energy Blog – September 2, 2015

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 […]

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Morning Energy Blog – August 10, 2015

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 […]

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Morning Energy Blog – August 5, 2015

Equites and the Economy Good morning and happy National Oyster Day. For a third consecutive day U.S. stocks closed lower with the Dow falling 47 points, to 17,551, the S&P 500 lost 5 closing at 2.093 and the Nasdaq was off 9 to 5,106. Similar to the previous sessions all the indexes closed well off […]

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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 6, 2015

Equities and the Economy Good morning. I hope you had a pleasant holiday weekend. Let’s get last Thursday, the last day the U.S. markets were open, out of the way for a lot has occurred since that time. On Thursday the Dow fell 28 points to 17,730 losing 1.2% for the week. The S&P 500 […]

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Morning Energy Blog – July 2, 2015

Equities and the Economy Good morning and happy National Anisette Day. Ok. Let’s just get it out of the way first. Greece. With the Greek referendum scheduled for Sunday and despite overtures from the Greeks, the Brussels Group has ceased negotiations until after the referendum. It makes total sense. If the Greeks vote “Yes” then […]

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