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Europe: +44 (0) 207 198 1634 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 […]
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Monthly Energy Review Note: Data exclude emissions from biomass energy consumption. The electric power sector emitted 128 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (MMmt CO2) in April 2015, the lowest for any month since April 1988, according to the most recent estimates in EIA’s Monthly Energy Review. In any year, April is typically the […]
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 […]
Equities and the Economy Good morning and happy National Coast Guard Day. On their first day of trading in August U.S. stocks got whacked with the Dow losing 92 points, 0.52%, the S&P 500 off 6, 0.28%, to 2,098 and the Nasdaq fell 13, 0.35%, to 5,115. The biggest losing sector on the day was […]
