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Europe: +44 (0) 207 198 1634 Good morning. Some bad news in the housing market weighed on U.S equities yesterday. The National Association of Realtors reported sales of previously owned homes (existing) unexpectedly fell in August for the first time in 5 months. Sales fell 1.8% to 5.05 million annualized pace from a revised 5.14 million pace in July. The expectation […]
Good morning. Last week ended mixed for equities with the Dow rising 14 points to 17,280, a new record, the S&P 500 closing down 1 at 2,010 and the Nasdaq off 14 to 4,580. The major indexes over the week were supported by favorable outcomes of two “risk” events: the Fed reiterating its commitment to […]
Good morning. I wonder if someone has the Fed meeting bugged. I mean for the last week and a day the equity market were lackluster chopping around looking for direction. That was the way we started out the day yesterday trading on either side of unchanged until about 10:20 CDT and then zoom, off to […]
Good morning. Yesterday was bifurcated. If you were AT&T or ExxonMobil or other members of the Dow you did ok with the Dow (which is 30 stocks) closing up 44 points at 17,031. If you owned the S&P 500 index you yawned with it closing down 1 at 1,984. But if you owned the Nasdaq […]
Good morning. After a couple of lousy days we got a nice bounce yesterday with the Dow closing up 55 points at 17,068, the S&P 500 rising 7 to 1,996 (still below 2,000) and the Nasdaq climbing 34 to 4,587. Stepping back though and looking at the forest and not the trees, the market has […]
Good morning. A second straight lousy day for our 401K’s. The Dow lost 98 points, its biggest one day drop in a month, to 17,014, the S&P 500 fell 13 and back below 2,000 to 1,988 and the Nasdaq really got whacked closing down 40 points, 0.9%, to 4,552. Investors had little economic news to […]
Good morning. The S&P 500 rose to 10 points to 2,007 on Friday to a new record as investors shrugged off a weak August jobs report. The Dow gained 68 to 17,137, just shy of its July 16th record, and the Nasdaq climbed 21 to 4,583. Refreshing your memory, Friday morning the Labor Department released […]
