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Morning Energy Blog – December 9, 2014

Good morning. It may be the holiday season but it was bah-humbug yesterday in the equity markets with U.S. stocks suffering their biggest one day slide in nearly 7 weeks with the Dow closing down 106 points, 0.6%, at 17,852, the S&P 500 losing 15, 0.75%, at 2,060 and the Nasdaq down 40, 0.84%, at […]

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Morning Energy Blog – December 8, 2014

Good morning. It’s absolutely amazing to me what one single report can do! On the coattails of a blowout jobs report Friday U.S. equities jumped, bond prices fell, the U.S. dollar leapt and gold got whacked. The Dow and S&P 500 hit new highs on an intraday basis but lost traction in the afternoon backing […]

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Morning Energy Blog – December 5, 2014

Good morning. U.S stock prices ended yesterday pretty much flat to Wednesday with the Dow off 12 points to 17,900, the S&P 500 down 2 to 2,071 and the Nasdaq closing at 4,769, 5 points lower. I’d normally say “chatter” but it was a little scary intraday when the Dow was down 100 points! Then […]

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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 – December 1, 2014

Good morning. I hope everyone enjoyed the holiday and got a chance to spend time with your loved ones. Let’s see what’s transpired since last Monday which was the last closing data reported. On that day the Dow and S&P 500 closed at record highs of 17,818 and 2,069, respectively. The Nasdaq closed at 4,755. […]

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Morning Energy Blog – November 25, 2014

Good morning. Once again the Dow and S&P 500 set record highs but by the barest of margins. The Dow added a mere 8 points to 17,818 and the S&P gained 6 to 2,069. The bellwether S&P has risen 7 of the last 8 days and has gained 12% this year. Remember, this is after […]

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Morning Energy Blog – November 24, 2014

Good morning. Equities around the world got a one-two punch for global growth on Friday! Kudos go to Mario Draghi but even more to the People Bank of China (PBOC). Mr. Draghi, President of the ECB, stated on Friday the economy in the eurozone was weaker than had been feared and inflation lower than had […]

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Morning Energy Blog – November 21, 2014

Good morning. World markets slipped. Japan’s yen fell to another 7 year low. And the Dow and S&P 500 hit record highs again with the former closing 33 points higher at 17,719 and the latter adding 4 points to 2,053. This was a nice rebound for when I wrote this report yesterday morning Dow futures […]

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Morning Energy Blog – November 19, 2014

Good morning. It appears investors are getting into the holiday season. Yesterday they once again pushed the Dow and S&P 500 to record highs. Whoo-hoo-hoo! The numbers were the Dow popped 40 points, 0.2% to 17,688, the S&P 500 rose 11, 0.5%, to 2,052 and the Nasdaq did the best up 31 points, 0.7%, to […]

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