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Europe: +44 (0) 207 198 1634 Equities and the Economy: • Trump trade at work. • Dow logs 47th record high in 2017. Driven by the optimism tax reform is coming, investors have been buying U.S. equities in record amounts, literally. Yesterday all three of the primary stock indexes gained and all three touched fresh intraday record highs. The Dow rose […]
Equities and the Economy: • Stocks end little changed on Friday. • Post solid weekly gains. The Dow and S&P 500 suffered minor losses on Friday. The Dow fell an immaterial 2 points to 22,774 ending a 7 day winning streak. The S&P slipped 3 points to 2,549 ending its 8 day streak. The Nasdaq […]
Equities and the Economy: • Equities rally to again set record highs. • Fundamentals continue to be supportive. Four main stock benchmarks set new record highs yesterday. The Dow popped 153 points, 0.7%, finishing at 22,558, the S&P 500 advanced 10 points, 0.4%, ending at 2,529, the Nasdaq tacked on 21 points, 0.3%, to 6,517 […]
Equities and the Economy: • Q2 GDP revised up. • S&P, Nasdaq and Russell post yet another record high. U.S. equities wrapped up last week, the month and quarter on a high note with the S&P 500, Nasdaq and Russell 2000 hitting all-time highs on Friday. The S&P gained 9 points to 2,519 closing at […]
Equities and the Economy: • Equities meandering. • Yellen strongly implies one more rate hike coming this year. U.S. stocks have been meandering of late including yesterday. The Dow slipped 12 points yesterday closing at 22,284 and while this is the Dow’s 4th consecutive day of posting losses, the loss has only been 0.6% since […]
Equities and the Economy: • Dow and S&P continue to post record highs. • FOMC embarking on QT. The FOMC concluded its two day September meeting and being it played out very much in line with expectations investors road the trend taking the Dow and S&P 500 higher. The gains weren’t much but enough to […]
Equities and the Economy: • U.S. stocks closed mixed. • Post small loss for the week. Investors stayed on the sidelines on Friday waiting to see what Irma’s impact would be as well as whether North Korea was going to fire another missile. The Dow eked out a small gain of 13 points to finish […]
Equities and the Economy: • Equities end little changed. • U.S. dollar hitting 2.5 year lows. U.S. stocks ended little changed yesterday with the Dow closing down 23 points at 21,785, the S&P 500 finishing flat to Wednesday at 2,465 and the Nasdaq posting a slight gain of 5 points to 6,397. Investors are keying […]
Equities and the Economy: • Stocks post modest gains. • Economic data mixed. U.S. equities logged modest gains yesterday with the Dow climbing 54 points to 21,808, the S&P 500 adding 8 to 2,466 and the Nasdaq tacked on 18 points to end at 6,393. There were quite a few economic reports released yesterday and […]
Equities and the Economy: • Stocks close higher on Friday. • All three major indexes post weekly gains. U.S. equities ended the week on a positive note with the Dow closing 39 points higher at 21,988, the S&P 500 gaining 5 points to 2,477 and the Nasdaq adding 7 points to finish at 6,435. It […]
