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Morning Energy Blog – October 20, 2014

Good morning. After five days of massive intraday swings and steep losses the U.S. equities market rallied very nicely on Friday with the all the major indexes closing out the week registering more than 1% gains on Friday. The Dow climbed 263 points, 1.6%, closing at 16, 380, the S&P 500 added 24, 1.3%, to […]

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Morning Energy Blog – October 15, 2014

Good morning. After 3 days of a nightmare on Wall Street U.S. equities stabilized yesterday with the Dow ending down 6 to 16,315, the S&P 500 up 3 to 1,878 and the Nasdaq up 14 to 4,227. That being said, if you have energy stocks in your portfolio you’re still feeling pain (Chevron down 2% […]

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Morning Energy Report – September 24, 2014

Good morning. U.S. equities fell for the 3rd straight day with the Dow losing 117 points, 0.68%, to 17,056, the S&P 500 dropping 12, 0.58%, to 1,983 and the Nasdaq off 19, 0.42%, at 4,509. Nearly half of the losses came in the last 20 minutes of trading which is not a good omen. It […]

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Morning Energy Report – September 22, 2014

Good morning. Last week ended mixed for equities with the Dow rising 14 points to 17,280, a new record, the S&P 500 closing down 1 at 2,010 and the Nasdaq off 14 to 4,580. The major indexes over the week were supported by favorable outcomes of two “risk” events: the Fed reiterating its commitment to […]

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September 15th. Morning Energy Report

Good morning. Stocks closed lower on Friday with the Dow falling 61 and below 17,000 to 16,982, the S7P 500 off 12 to 1,986 and the Nasdaq closing at 4,568, down 24. This is the first week the major indexes have closed down (S&P down 1.2%) after 5 weeks of gains. Let’s not forget though […]

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September 9th. Morning Energy Report

Good morning. Equities have been chopping around lately. On Friday they rose and yesterday they fell. The Dow ended down 26 at 17,111, the S&P 500 lost 6 to 2,002 and the Nasdaq ended off 9 at 4,492. Chatter. With the recent drop in oil prices energy equities have been getting whacked with the energy […]

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September 8th. Morning Energy Report

Good morning. The S&P 500 rose to 10 points to 2,007 on Friday to a new record as investors shrugged off a weak August jobs report. The Dow gained 68 to 17,137, just shy of its July 16th record, and the Nasdaq climbed 21 to 4,583. Refreshing your memory, Friday morning the Labor Department released […]

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September 5th. Morning Energy Report

Good morning. Equities started the day nicely higher after Mario Draghi of the ECB announced the central bank was cutting its benchmark interest rate to a record low, from 0.15% to 0.05% (seriously? A 0.1% drop ain’t going to help or hurt my portfolio) and planned to purchase asset-backed securities (now THAT will have an […]

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September 4th. Morning Energy Report

Good morning. Stocks ended mostly down yesterday with the Dow rising 11 points ending at 17,078, the S&P 500 falling 2 to 2,001 and the Nasdaq getting hit 26 points settling at 4,573. While the former two indexes waffled on either side of unchanged the Nasdaq got whacked 0.56% dragged down by Apple which fell […]

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