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Morning Energy Blog – October 1, 2015

Equities and the Economy HOORAY! Finally a good day for equities. No, check that. A great day! Following big gains in Asia equities, U.S. stocks closed out Q3 hugely higher with the Dow gaining a hefty 236 points, 1.47%, closing at 16,285, the S&P 500 climbing 36, 1.91%, to 1,920 and the Nasdaq led all […]

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Morning Energy Blog – January 20, 2015

Equities and the Economy Good morning. As I’m sure you are fully aware, the U.S. markets were closed yesterday for the holiday so let’s review happened Friday and last week. In summary it was a roller-coaster week. On Friday the Dow shot up 191 points to 17,512, the S&P 500 climbed 27 to 2,019 and […]

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Morning Energy Blog – January 5, 2015

Good morning. Welcome back one and all. I truly hope you had a wonderful holiday and could spend time with your loves ones. The last Morning Energy Report was on Tuesday December 30th reflecting the price action of the day before so let’s see what’s happened in 4 calendar days and 3 trading days. Last […]

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Morning Energy Blog – December 18, 2014

Good morning. WOW! What a good day! How good was it? It was so good the stock market went MAD! MAD is when the Dow logs a major accumulation day which is defined as a session when the up volume on the NYSE is at least 9 times more than the down volume. Yesterday was […]

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Morning Energy Blog – December 17, 2014

Good morning. Well the equities markets are definitely working on a “correction.” Stocks have fallen for three consecutive days with the S&P 500’s loss yesterday of 17 points, 0.85%, to 1973. Its now fallen 5% from its record high put in on December 5th. I don’t know about you but it sure has felt more […]

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Morning Energy Blog – December 16, 2014

Good morning. As I say, it’s not the open that counts. It’s the close. Yesterday morning Dow futures were up triple digits. It closed down triple. The Dow lost an even 100 points, 0.6%, yesterday closing at 17,181. The S&P 500 fell 13 points, also 0.6%, ending at 1,990. The Nasdaq got absolutely bludgeoned closing […]

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Morning Energy Blog – December 15, 2014

Good morning. Friday was a horrible day for U.S. stocks. The Dow lost 316 points, 1.79%, the S&P 500 dropped, 33, 1.62%, and the Nasdaq ended off 55 points, 1.16%, at 4,654. It wasn’t just Friday that stunk. The whole week did with the S&P down 3.5%, its worst weekly performance since May 2012. The […]

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Morning Energy Blog – December 4, 2014

Good morning. The Dow and S&P 500 set another both intraday and closing high yesterday with the former adding 33 points to 17,913 and the latter 8 points to 2,074. I’m about to give you staggering statistic. This year the Dow has closed at a record high 48 times and the S&P 33 times! If […]

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Morning Energy Blog – December 3, 2014

Good morning. U.S. stocks bounced nicely from Monday’s losses yesterday driven by fundamental news. Yesterday the Dow climbed a nice 103 points closing at 17,880, the S&P 500 jumped 14 to 2,067 and the Nasdaq was up 29 to 4,756. Driving equities higher was positive news on the construction front with spending rising a stout […]

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Morning Energy Blog – November 14, 2014

Good morning. As you regular readers know, I usually begin this report with equities for equities often influence oil prices (natural gas operates in its own little world!) but today oil gets the lead spot. Why? Because yesterday both WTI and Brent hit 4 year lows. WTI closed down a whopping $2.97, 3.9%, at $74.21 […]

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