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Europe: +44 (0) 207 198 1634 Equities and the economy The big news yesterday was the release of the minutes of the FOMC’s April meeting and it is apparent that Fed presidents Dennis Lockhart and John Williams on Tuesday were teeing the market up, for the minutes stated “most” of its members were ready to lift rates as early as June. […]
Equities and the economy Lockhart and Williams scared the crap out of investors yesterday. Dennis Lockhart and John Williams are the presidents of the Atlanta and San Francisco Fed’s, respectively, and in separate statements said there could be 2 or 3 interest rate hikes this year with June being a meeting where action could be […]
Renewable energy is growing. The extent to which it is growing is remarkable though, with 70 times more renewable capacity added than natural gas (18MW for natural gas vs 1,291MW for renewables). In the first three months of 2016, the U.S. grid added 18 megawatts of new natural gas generating capacity. It added a whopping […]
Equities and the economy It started very, very quietly but ended strong! At this time yesterday Dow futures were flat to Friday’s close however as the day wore on they got stronger and stronger and when the final bell rang the Dow was up a nice 175 points, an even 1%, at 17,710, the S&P […]
Equities and the Economy Last week ended on a sour note for us. The Dow fell 185 points, 1.05%, to end at 17,535, the S&P 500 lost 18, 0.85%, to finish at 2,047 and the Nasdaq was off 20 points, 0.41%, closing at 4,718. For the week as a whole the Dow, S&P and Nasdaq […]
On May 12, 2016, the EPA took another set of steps to cut methane emissions from the oil and natural gas industry and stay on track to achieve its goal of cutting methane emissions from the oil and gas sector by 40-45% from 2012 levels by 2025. In addition to curbing emissions of methane, the […]
Equities and the economy The bulls beat up on the bears on Tuesday and the bears beat up on the bulls on Wednesday and yesterday they both left the battlefield and went back to their corrals and their caves and licked their wounds. The Dow rose 9 points to 17,720, the S&P 500 closed flat […]
Equities and the economy Well the calm has ended. After a month or so of no volatility the last two sessions have been anything but with the major indexes moving in opposite and almost equal amounts the last two days. Refreshing your memory, on Tuesday the Dow closed up 222 points. Yesterday it closed down […]
Equities and the economy Just as I write that volatility has been low and we haven’t had a move greater than 1% in a month stocks go bonkers yesterday with all three major U.S. equity indexes closing up over 1%. It was a very, very good day for your 401K. The Dow popped a hefty […]
Equities and the economy Yesterday was a nothing day for U.S. stocks with the major indexes closing in different directions. The Dow closed down 35 at 17,706, the S&P 500 eked out a gain of a couple points ending at 2,059 while the more Nasdaq being the best performer of the day closing up 14, […]
