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Europe: +44 (0) 207 198 1634 Equities and the Economy: My apologies but this is going to be a brief Morning Energy Blog for I’ve been in meetings all morning. It was a good day for U.S. equities yesterday with the Dow closing up 85 to 18,312, the S&P 500 rising 7 to 2,167 and the Nasdaq advancing 3 points to […]
Equities and the Economy: Well it appears investors liked the results of the first presidential debate, and oh, maybe a number of stronger than expected economic reports just may have helped as well. Yesterday the Dow popped 133 points, 0.73%, finishing at 18,228, the S&P 500 rose 14, 0.64%, to 2,160 and the Nasdaq added […]
Equities and the Economy: U.S. equities were on the defensive yesterday. One stupid headline I read blamed the unknown surrounding last night’s presidential debate. The real reason was something that didn’t even happen in America (which is why I follow global events). Deutsche Bank’s stock, Germany’s largest bank, got whacked yesterday, down 7.1% and hitting […]
Equities and the Economy: Although U.S equities closed lower on Friday, with the Dow closing down 131 points, 0.7%, at 18,261, the S&P 500 off 12, 0.6%, to 2,165 and the Nasdaq dropping 34, 0.6%, ending at 5,306, it was a pretty good week with the S&P gaining 1.2%. Remember the Nasdaq closed at record […]
Equities and the Economy: Global equities were a sea of green yesterday with investors shaking off any jitters post the BoJ and, more importantly, FOMC meetings clicking the “buy” button. The Dow was up as much as 156 points and although it pulled back in the afternoon it still posted a good day ending up […]
Equities and the Economy: Kind of a strange day yesterday. Taking their que from fairly strong European markets, U.S. stocks were markedly higher in the morning and up as much as 132 points an hour after the open but they then began to fade and in early afternoon were even negative on the day by […]
Equities and the Economy: Friday capped a very volatile week for U.S. stocks with the Dow closing down 89 points, 0.49%, at 17,124, the S&P 500 fell 8 points, 0.38%, ending at 2,139 and the Nasdaq finished off 5, 0.10%, at 5,245. Now for the good news. The S&P 500 squeezed out a weekly gain […]
Equities and the Economy: U.S. stocks continue to climb the Wall of Worry closed marginally higher yesterday with the Dow up 46 points to 18,538, the S&P 500 up 7 to 2,186 and the Nasdaq up 26 to 5,276 which is a record high for the tech heavy index! By the way, climbing the Wall […]
Equities and the Economy: It was “bad news is good news” on Friday with the closely watched Labor Department’s Employment Situation Report for July released. The bad news was that per the department 151,000 jobs were added in the month with economists forecasting an increase of 180,000. The good news was that investors interpreted the […]
Equities and the Economy: It got a little scary yesterday after The Institute of Supply Management released its manufacturing index for August noting a fall from July’s 52.6 to 49.2 and most importantly, below 50 which is the demarcation between expansion and contraction. This was the first time in 6 months the index fell with […]
