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Morning Energy Blog – February 18, 2016

Equities and the Economy Whoo-hoo! Yesterday we had our first three day win streak in 2016, and biggest three day gain since August, with all the major indexes materially rising helped by stronger oil prices and some encouraging economic news. The Dow screamed higher by a big 258 points, 1.59%, to 16,454, the S&P 500 […]

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Morning Energy Blog – February 17, 2016

Equities and the Economy Equities roared strong for a second consecutive session adding to last Friday’s gains. The Dow popped a big 223 points, 1.39%, and back over 16,000 to 16,196. The S&P jumped 31, 1.65%, to 1,896 and the Nasdaq was the big winner rising a whopping 2.27%, 98 points, to 4,435. I like […]

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Morning Energy Blog – February 16, 2016

Equities and the Economy The stock market was closed yesterday so let’s recap what happened Friday. Bottom line, it was outstanding! U.S. stocks snapped a five day losing streak logging their largest daily gains of the month led by financial and energy shares. The Dow closed up a big 314 points, an even 2%, at […]

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Morning Energy Blog – February 12, 2016

Equities and Economy Stocks tumbled yesterday as the Dow fell for the 5th consecutive day closing down 255 points, 1.60%, at 15,660. The S&P 500 lost 23, 1.23%, to 1,829. The Nasdaq fared the best closing down only 0.39%, at 4,267. It could have been, oh, so much worse. At 2:37 EST the Dow was […]

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Morning Energy Blog – February 11, 2016

Equities and the Economy We had a second day of chop yesterday with the Dow closing down 99 at 15,915, the S&P 500 literally closing flat to Tuesday at 1,852 and the Nasdaq actually managing to post a gain of 15 points ending at 4,284. However, I was very concerned how we got to those […]

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Morning Energy Blog – February 4, 2016

Equities and the Economy Yesterday, the Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq closed at 16,337, 1,913 and 4,504, respectively. Let’s see how this compares to last Friday’s closes which is when we had our last Blog data. Last Friday the Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq closed at 16,466, 1,940 and 4,614, respectively. So we’ve little ground […]

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Morning Energy Blog – February 1, 2016

Equities and the Economy In Friday’s Blog I stated that it looked like U.S. stocks on Thursday were gaining traction. Well on Friday they were like John Force at Lucas Oil Raceway screaming down the track at top speed and crossing the finishing line on their highs of the day. The Dow went ballistic closing […]

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Morning Energy Blog – January 29, 2016

Equities and the Economy Just like the tires of your car for you in the northeast gaining traction with the ice melting, the U.S. equities market just might be gaining some traction. Yesterday the Dow rose a nice 126 points, 0.79%, to 16,070, the S&P 500 added 10, 0.53%, ending at 1,893 and the Nasdaq […]

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Morning Energy Blog – January 28, 2016

Equities and the Economy The big news affecting the market yesterday was what the FOMC would say in its post meeting communique at 2:00 PM EST. As a matter of background, the message the Fed was sending in December 2015 was there would be multiple (4?) interest rate increases in 2016. Then oil prices and […]

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Morning Energy Blog – January 27, 2016

Equities and the Economy Just as generals ordered their men in the Civil War to “hold the line” so did the S&P 500 1,862 to 1,869 “line” of support hold with equities strongly bouncing off that level and putting in a great performance yesterday. The Dow rose a big 282 points, 1.77%, finishing at 16,167, […]

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