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Europe: +44 (0) 207 198 1634 Equities and the Economy: • Equities rally to again set record highs. • Fundamentals continue to be supportive. Four main stock benchmarks set new record highs yesterday. The Dow popped 153 points, 0.7%, finishing at 22,558, the S&P 500 advanced 10 points, 0.4%, ending at 2,529, the Nasdaq tacked on 21 points, 0.3%, to 6,517 […]
Equities and the Economy: • Q2 GDP revised up. • S&P, Nasdaq and Russell post yet another record high. U.S. equities wrapped up last week, the month and quarter on a high note with the S&P 500, Nasdaq and Russell 2000 hitting all-time highs on Friday. The S&P gained 9 points to 2,519 closing at […]
Equities and the Economy: • Dow snaps 4 day losing streak. • Tax reform proposal supportive. Erasing losses earlier in the day the Dow closed up 56 points at 22,341 snapping a 4 day losing streak. The S&P 500 rose 10 points finishing at 2,507, less than 0.1% off its record close set last week. […]
Equities and the Economy: • Equities meandering. • Yellen strongly implies one more rate hike coming this year. U.S. stocks have been meandering of late including yesterday. The Dow slipped 12 points yesterday closing at 22,284 and while this is the Dow’s 4th consecutive day of posting losses, the loss has only been 0.6% since […]
Equities and the Economy: • U.S. stocks slip. • Geopolitical events lead to investor cautiousness. Riskier assets, which includes stocks, came under marginal pressure yesterday with North Korea’s foreign minister Ri Yong Ho announcing that President Trump’s recent comments were “clearly a declaration or war” and that Pyongyang has the right to shoot down U.S. […]
Equities and the Economy: • U.S. stocks end little changed. • Russell 2000 closes at record high. The three major U.S. stock indexes ended little changed on Friday. The Dow settled 10 points lower at 6,427, the S&P 500 ended 2 points up at 2,502 and the Nasdaq closed 4 points higher at 6,427. Weekly […]
Equities and the Economy: • Stocks snap 9 day win streak. • Investors see little reason to buy. U.S. stocks closed marginally lower yesterday. Although the Dow traded at a new intraday high at 22,420 it couldn’t hold the gains and closed down 53 points at 22,359. The S&P 500 slipped 8 points finishing at […]
Equities and the Economy: • Dow and S&P continue to post record highs. • FOMC embarking on QT. The FOMC concluded its two day September meeting and being it played out very much in line with expectations investors road the trend taking the Dow and S&P 500 higher. The gains weren’t much but enough to […]
Equities and the Economy: • Dow closes at record high. • Markets shrugging off geopolitical events. Although the major U.S. indexes ended mixed yesterday the Dow’s gain of 45 points to 22,203 was enough to log its third consecutive record high. The S&P 500 fell 3 points to end at 2,496 and the Nasdaq finished […]
Equities and the Economy: • Dow and S&P eke out another record high. • Maybe time for a breather. Yesterday’s gains in stocks were very small but they were enough to take the Dow and S&P 500 to new record highs. The Dow rose 39 points to 22,158 and the S&P gained 2 to 2,498. […]
