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Europe: +44 (0) 207 198 1634 Equities and the Economy Unfortunately Super Bowl Monday began where Super Bowl Friday ended with another wave of selling sending U.S. equities markedly lower. The Dow fell 178 points, 1.1%, to 16,027, the S&P 500 sank 27, 1.4%, to 1,853 and the Nasdaq ended down 79, 1.8%, at 4,284. And it could have been worse. […]
Equities and the Economy U.S. equities continue to climb the wall of worry posting a second consecutive day of gains with the Dow closing up 80 points, 0.49%, at 16,417, the S&P 500 up 2 to 1,915 and the Nasdaq up 6 to 4,510. All rose in the face of marginally declining oil prices. I […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Equities and the Economy U.S. equities weren’t trading too badly for most of the day being marginally negative, until the last two hours and then it got ugly with selling coming in hard. At the bell the scorecard read Dow down 208 points, 1.3%, at 15,885, the S&P 500 off 30, 1.6%, to 1,877 and […]
Equities and the Economy Thursday we stopped falling and Friday we had a nice big up day for U.S. stocks with the Dow posting a very healthy 211 point, 1.33%, gain closing at 16,094, the S&P 500 adding 38 points, 2.03%, ending at 1,907 and the Nasdaq posting at big 119 point rise, 2.66%, to […]
Equities and the Economy After what seems days of bloodletting U.S. stocks stabilized yesterday with the Dow gaining 53 points closing at 16,399, the S&P 500 added 2 to 1,924 but the Nasdaq went the other direction closing down 6 at 4,638. This actually was pretty good considering oil prices, which investors have been keying […]
Equities and the Economy It began ugly and ended ugly. I’m talking about U.S. equities. At about this time yesterday Dow futures were down 274 points and although prices did recover a tad intraday the day still ended lousy. The Dow lost 252 points, 1.47%, closing at 16,907 and below 17,000 for the first time […]
