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Europe: +44 (0) 207 198 1634 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 […]
Equities and the Economy Good morning. Horrible, horrible, horrible price action yesterday. When I came in yesterday Dow futures were up 523 points. When I finished writing this Report the Dow had eased off to being up 283 points. When closing bell rang all the gains evaporated with the Dow finishing down 205 points,1.29%, at […]
Equities and the Economy This is not the déjà vu I wanted to see all over again. At least you have your health (hopefully!) because our 401K’s or portfolios continue to get pounded. Ugly is not a proper description for yesterday. Grotesque is a better word. Forget economic reports. Forget PMI’s. Forget housing starts. Forget […]
Equites and the Economy Good morning. Well it was a heck of a run! Folks you may not have realized it didn’t realize it but the way long overdue correction just happened, and I bet you didn’t even see it for it happened so fast! On Friday we just ended the third longest running bull […]
Equities and the Economy Good morning. I return from my vacation with the dubious distinction of having to report that panic struck the equity markets yesterday with U.S. stocks suffering their worst selloff in 2015. It was a broad-based rout with the S&P 500 losing 44 points (2.11%) to 2,036 and posting its biggest one […]
Please note: This will be the last Morning Energy Blog until August 21st. I will be on vacation with my two teenage daughters trying to do some bonding, if that’s even possible with teenagers. Equites and the Economy As I mentioned yesterday, the global equities market got hit with a tsunami yesterday when Monday night […]
Note: Tomorrow will be the last Morning Energy Blog until Friday August 21st. The author is taking a long overdue vacation with his daughters. Equities and the Economy U.S. stocks had a great day yesterday (finally) closing near their highs for the day. The Dow shot up 242 points, 1.39%, at 17,615, the S&P 500 […]
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 Raspberries N’ Cream Day. U.S. stocks ended lower once again yesterday primarily driven but weak earnings, but technicals are also playing a role. Regarding the former, it was the media companies turn to get slammed yesterday (remember this is after Disney, another stock market “general,” lost […]
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 […]
