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Europe: +44 (0) 207 198 1634 Equities and the Economy: • Stocks post worst daily performance in 8 months. • Investors deleverage on belief President Trump’s pro-growth agenda delayed. Ugly. Very ugly. “Black swan” events are by definition unforeseen and yesterday’s came from the political arena. After marking record highs as recently as Monday, the U.S. major indexes got obliterated yesterday […]
Equities and the Economy: • Nasdaq logs another record high. • U.S. manufacturing production highest in more than 3 years. It was another stellar day for the technology sector with the Nasdaq once again closing at a new record high posting a 20 point gain to 6,170. The Dow and S&P 500 basically closed flat […]
Equities and the Economy: • Stocks end mixed. • Fed leaves interest rates unchanged. U.S. equities ended mixed yesterday with the Dow gaining 8 to 20,958 but the other two major indexes fell. The S&P 500 lost 3 to 2,388 and the red-hot Nasdaq fell 23 points to 6,073. Chatter. Let’s move on. The FOMC […]
Equities and the Economy: • Earnings and government speak drive the major indexes higher. • Nasdaq sets record high. Strong earnings from American Express comments by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross drove stocks higher yesterday with the Dow popping a hefty 174 points, 0.9%, to 20,579, the S&P 500 rose 18 […]
Equities and the Economy: • First Goldman, now IBM. • Dow closes at lowest level since February 10th. Tuesday it was Goldman Sachs’ disappointing earnings that sent the Dow lower. Yesterday it was IBM. The company reported weaker than expected sales in Q1 and investors punished the company pushing its stock price down 3.9%, its […]
Equities and the Economy: • Stocks end materially lower. • Unexpectedly weak earnings from Goldman Sachs and Johnson & Johnson to blame. I’ve been telling you that S&P 500 P/E ratios are lofty and a company’s earnings better come in at expectations or its stock will get pounded, and that’s exactly what happened yesterday, at […]
Equities and the Economy: • Investors risk appetite increases after risk-off holiday weekend. • U.S. stocks bounce back. After three sessions of losses putting the indexes at two month lows on Thursday U.S. equities rallied hefty yesterday with investors putting back on the risk they’d taken off before the holiday weekend. The Dow rose a […]
Equities and the Economy: • Day started good. Ended bad. • ADP data shows U.S. Labor market strong. Boy did it look like it was going to be a very good day. The ADP Research Institute reported yesterday the private sector added 263,000 jobs last month which was not only 70 thousand above the consensus […]
Equities and the Economy: • Stocks post marginal losses on Friday. • Solid gains for Q1. The major U.S. stock indexes closed marginally lower on Friday with the Dow falling 65 points to 20,663, the S&P 500 off 5 to 2,363 and the Nasdaq losing 3 points to 5,912. Looking at it from a longer […]
Equities and the Economy: • Stocks end little changed. • Dow down 9 of last 10 sessions. Nasdaq closes up for 4th consecutive day. Muted price action was the order of the day yesterday. That being said, the Dow, which closed 42 points lower at 20,659, posted its 9th loss in 10 sessions. At the […]
