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Europe: +44 (0) 207 198 1634 Equities and the Economy Good morning and happy National Sibling Day. U.S. equities ended a choppy session yesterday with modest gains helped by a rally in energy and the healthcare sectors. Trading was tight ranged with the Dow closing up 56 at 17,958, the S&P 500 adding 9 to 2,091 and the Nasdaq closing 24 […]
Equities and the Economy Good morning. For over 80% of the day things were looking pretty darn good with the Dow up an average of 80 points for that time frame. And then the bottom just fell out. There was no major news. Sellers just came in. So instead of a nice, descent up day […]
Equities and the Economy Good morning. U.S. stocks finished the Easter shortened week on a marginally positive note breaking two sessions of material losses. The Dow closed up 65 points at 17,763 and both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq added 7 points with the former ending at 2,067 and the latter 4,887. Now you may […]
Equities and the Economy Wow! Wow. And more Wow! And Yahoo! Driven by a combination of not so subtle hints from the Bank of China of impending QE, some positive economic news in Europe, numerous pharmaceutical mergers were announced before the open and some positive housing data here in the states, U.S. stocks materially higher […]
Equities and the Economy Good morning. Before I get into discussing equities and the economy I want to discuss the Fed. I have been writing about the Fed, its actions and the implications of its actions since the inception of my Morning Energy Report seven years ago. I was doing research over the weekend and […]
Equities and the Economy Good morning. It was a see-saw day for U.S. equities yesterday with the major indexes ending slightly lower with the Dow off 40 points to 17,678, the S&P 500 lost 5 to 2,056 and the Nasdaq was again the laggard down 13 to 4,863. Unfortunately for us yesterday marked the 4th […]
Equities and the Economy Good morning. Purge. Heave. Hurl. I’m not talking about a body’s response after consuming too much alcohol but the analogy applies to equities yesterday. And don’t look at your 401K. You ain’t gonna like it. After yesterday we are all going to have to work a little longer. So how bad […]
Equities and the Economy Happy first day of Spring! It just seems we can’t get any momentum in stocks. Literally it’s one day up and the next day down. After the big Fed induced rally on Wednesday U.S. stocks retreated on Thursday with the Dow falling 117 points (0.65%) and back below 18,000 to 17,959 […]
Equities and the Economy. Good morning. [expletive!] Right after I’m feeling we dodged a bullet with Thursday’s rally which followed a bludgeoning from earlier in the week U.S equities get absolutely destroyed on Friday. The Dow lost 146 points (0.82%) to 17,749, the S&P 500 fell 13 (0.61%) to 2,053 and the Nasdaq lost “only” […]
Equities and the Economy Good morning. U.S. stocks bounced back from a really lousy Friday with the Dow gaining 139 points to 17,996, the S&P 500 adding 8 points to 2,079 and the Nasdaq closing up 15 at 4,942. Unfortunately these gains were less than half of Friday’s losses. There was no fundamental economic data […]
