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Europe: +44 (0) 207 198 1634 Equities and the Economy Laissez Les Bon Temps Roulez! It’s official. The S&P 500 has joined the Dow in being positive for 2016 with the major indexes closing higher 5 consecutive seeks. A combination of improving conditions and the Fed’s dovish tone last week on monetary policy, i.e. interest rates, prompted investors to take on […]
Equities and the economy We’re back! As of yesterday’s closes the Dow is now positive for the year and the S&P 500 is just barely below it. The Nasdaq still has a ways to go being bogged down this year by biotech stocks. The Dow had a healthy gain of 156 points, 0.9%, finishing at […]
Equities and the economy We had a second consecutive day of lackluster trading in equities with the Dow closing up 22 at 17,252 while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq both closed lower. The former 4 to 2,016 and the latter by 22 to 4,729. With the bevy of central bank meetings investors are on hold, […]
Equities and the Economy The penultimate of the ECB meeting was a fairly quiet one for U.S. stocks with the oil/equity relationship remaining intact. Oil prices recovered and stock prices ended higher. The Dow closed up 36 points right at 17,000, the S&P 500 added 10 to 1,989 and the Nasdaq finished 26 points higher […]
Equities and the Economy U.S. stocks closed marginally higher yesterday, but in my opinion it was quite a positive performance. The reasoning is after coming off a huge up day on Tuesday stocks didn’t pull back, even after trading slightly in the red for most of the day. That’s called good price action. For the […]
Equities and the Economy Friday was the second consecutive sedate day for U.S. equities with the Dow closing down 21 at 16,392 while the S&P 500 finished exactly at its Thursday close of 1,918 and the Nasdaq managing a gain of 16 to 4,504. That being said, because Tuesday and Wednesday were such great days […]
Equities and the Economy Whoo-hoo! Yesterday we had our first three day win streak in 2016, and biggest three day gain since August, with all the major indexes materially rising helped by stronger oil prices and some encouraging economic news. The Dow screamed higher by a big 258 points, 1.59%, to 16,454, the S&P 500 […]
Equities and the Economy Equities roared strong for a second consecutive session adding to last Friday’s gains. The Dow popped a big 223 points, 1.39%, and back over 16,000 to 16,196. The S&P jumped 31, 1.65%, to 1,896 and the Nasdaq was the big winner rising a whopping 2.27%, 98 points, to 4,435. I like […]
Equities and the Economy The stock market was closed yesterday so let’s recap what happened Friday. Bottom line, it was outstanding! U.S. stocks snapped a five day losing streak logging their largest daily gains of the month led by financial and energy shares. The Dow closed up a big 314 points, an even 2%, at […]
Equities and Economy Stocks tumbled yesterday as the Dow fell for the 5th consecutive day closing down 255 points, 1.60%, at 15,660. The S&P 500 lost 23, 1.23%, to 1,829. The Nasdaq fared the best closing down only 0.39%, at 4,267. It could have been, oh, so much worse. At 2:37 EST the Dow was […]
