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Europe: +44 (0) 207 198 1634 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 […]
Good morning. I’ve been travelling on business the last three days hence the last Morning Energy Blog was last Friday reflecting Thursday’s market action. Let’s see what’s transpired since that time. Last Thursday the Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq closed at 17,555, 2,031 and 4,638, respectively. Yesterday the Dow closed at 17,612, the S&P at […]
Good morning. Trifecta. Heard the term? No, I’m not talking about the horserace track. I’m talking about U.S. equities. Specifically, a Dow Trifecta. That’s when the Dow Industrials, the Dow Transports and the Dow Utilities all close at record highs. Yesterday the Dow jumped 101 points closing at 17,485. The Dow Transports rose 0.47% and […]
Good morning. You know what today is? It’s the day you poor souls in states where there were contested congressional or gubernatorial races stop getting barraged with caustic television ads and political survey calls blowing up your telephone during dinner! Three cheers! Last night’s midterm elections were more exciting than the action in yesterday’s equities […]
Good morning. Coming off record highs and penultimate election day investors stayed on the sidelines and the markets yesterday ended pretty flat to Friday. The Dow fell 25 points to 17,366, the S&P 500 closed flat at 2,018 and the Nasdaq managed to eke out a gain of 8 to 4,639. As I mentioned in […]
Good morning. Friday ended a solid week of gains for U.S. equities with the Dow closing up a hefty 128 points at 16,805, the S&P 500 adding 14 to 1,965 and the Nasdaq closing at 4,484, up a big 31. For the week the Dow rose 2.6%, the S&P 4.1% and the Nasdaq 5.3%. It […]
Good Morning. An excellent day. A very excellent day! A day those bad bears limped wounded back to their caves. On the heels of word the ECB is considering buying corporate bonds (which pushed up Germany’s, France’s and London’s stock markets up 1.95, 2.3% and 1.7, respectively) and very good earnings reports from Apple all […]
Good Morning. We got back from a wild week yesterday with everyone wondering if the bears would emerge from their hibernation over the weekend and pick up where they left off last Thursday. Well the market worked really hard to not make a lot of noise and not wake the bears yesterday and stocks moved […]
Good morning. After five days of massive intraday swings and steep losses the U.S. equities market rallied very nicely on Friday with the all the major indexes closing out the week registering more than 1% gains on Friday. The Dow climbed 263 points, 1.6%, closing at 16, 380, the S&P 500 added 24, 1.3%, to […]
Good morning. Death by a thousand cuts. That’s what’s happening to U.S. stocks. Well folks, the correction is in full swing with the Dow closing down another 223 points lower, 1.35%, at 16,321, the S&P 500 losing another 31 points, 1.65%, to 1,875 and the Nasdaq down another 63, 1.46%, to 4,214. I don’t know […]
