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Morning Energy Blog – May 20, 2015

Equities and the Economy Good morning and happy National Be a Millionaire Day. U.S. stocks waffled all day yesterday between small gains and small losses. Although both the Dow and S&P 500 hit new intraday record highs only the Dow closed in the green adding 13 points to 18,312 setting a second consecutive record closing […]

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Morning Energy Blog – April 17, 2015

Equities and the Economy Good morning and happy National Cheeseball Day. U.S. equities ended very slightly lower yesterday than Wednesday with the Dow off 7 to 18,106, the S&P 500 down 2 to 2,105 and the Nasdaq ending 3 lower to 5,008. The Dow was up 57 points at one time during the day but […]

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Morning Energy Blog – April 8, 2015

Equities and the Economy Good morning. For over 80% of the day things were looking pretty darn good with the Dow up an average of 80 points for that time frame. And then the bottom just fell out. There was no major news. Sellers just came in. So instead of a nice, descent up day […]

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Morning Energy Blog – April 7, 2015

Equities and the Economy Good morning. The market had time to digest the lousy Labor Department’s Employment Situation Report from Friday and after selling futures all weekend and into the open investors came to realize the bad news is once again good news. As I mentioned in yesterday’s morning Report, the jobs report means the […]

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Morning Energy Blog – April 6, 2015

Equities and the Economy Good morning. U.S. stocks finished the Easter shortened week on a marginally positive note breaking two sessions of material losses. The Dow closed up 65 points at 17,763 and both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq added 7 points with the former ending at 2,067 and the latter 4,887. Now you may […]

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Morning Energy Blog – March 30, 2015

Equities and the Economy Good morning. Before I get into discussing equities and the economy I want to discuss the Fed. I have been writing about the Fed, its actions and the implications of its actions since the inception of my Morning Energy Report seven years ago. I was doing research over the weekend and […]

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Morning Energy Blog – March 25, 2015

Equities and the Economy Good morning. It’s been one day up and one day down for U.S. equities, until yesterday, and unfortunately it was two days down. All the major indexes close for the second consecutive day with the Dow falling 105 points (0.58%) to 18,011, the S&P 500 off 13 points (0.61%) to 2,092 […]

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Morning Energy Blog – March 18, 2015

Equities and the Economy Happy National Ravioli Day. The U.S. equity markets just can’t seem to get any momentum. One day up. The next day down. After the biggest rally in a month on Monday yesterday stocks got whacked. In fact, U.S. stocks have not risen two consecutive days in March. The Dow and S&P […]

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Morning Energy Blog – March 17, 2015

Equities and the Economy Top of the morning to ya!  Yesterday was a great day with all the major U.S. indexes (and the European as well!) shot skyward closing more than 1% higher as the U.S. dollar marginally retreated. The Dow jumped 228 points (1.28%) closing at 17,977, the S&P 500 popped 28 (1.20%) to […]

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Morning Energy Blog – March 13, 2015

Equities and the Economy Good morning. The technical support level I identified in my Morning Energy Report on Tuesday (2,030 – 2,045 basis S&P) held on Tuesday and Wednesday and with sellers few and far between buyers stepped in with a vengeance yesterday and U.S. equities posted their biggest daily gain in 5 weeks. Whew. […]

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