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Europe: +44 (0) 207 198 1634 Good morning. It’s good to be back after a week of business travel. The last Morning Energy Blog was published Friday September 11th reflecting what markets did the day before on Thursday the 10th. Let’s see what’s transpired since that time. On that Thursday the Dow closed at 16,330, the S&P 500 ended at 1,952 […]
Equities and the Economy Note: This is the last Morning Energy Blog until Monday September 21st because I will be travelling on business. Good morning. Looking at the closes yesterday you would have thought it was a fairly quiet day in equities with the Dow closing up 77 points at 16,330, the S&P 500 gaining […]
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Natural Gas Monthly Use of natural gas has two seasonal peaks, with consumption patterns predominantly driven by weather. The largest peak occurs during the winter, when cold weather increases the demand for natural gas space heating in the residential and commercial sectors. A second, smaller peak occurs in the summer […]
Equities and the Economy Good morning. And Whoo-hoo! Boy did we need a day like yesterday! After days and weeks of getting mostly beaten up U.S. equities posted big, big gains yesterday with the Dow rising 390 points, 2.4%, to 16,492 with all 30 stocks in the index closing up. The S&P 500 posted a […]
Equities and the Economy Good morning. This is probably old news to you by now but it was a horrible Friday for equities globally. Focusing on the U.S., the Dow fell 272 points, 1.7%, closing at 16,102, the S&P 500 lost 30 points, 1.53%, to 1,921 and the Nasdaq dropped 50 points, 1.1%, to 4,684. […]
Equities and the Economy The day started out very nicely yesterday with the Dow up 139 points in the morning but around 10:05 AM CDT investors mead an about-face and turning cautious and began selling and the day ended mixed with the Dow gaining 23 to 16,375, the S&P 500 up 3 ending at 1,951 […]
Equities and the Economy Saying August 2015 was a lousy month would be an understatement for it was the worst for Wall Street since 2012 erasing some $5 trillion in global equity value. Unfortunately, September picked up right where August ended. All the major indexes suffered heavy, triple digit losses with investors fleeing riskier assets […]
Equities and the Economy Good morning. After six sessions of negative news, for that is how long this losing streak has lasted, I finally get to relay (and I bet you already know what I’m going to say!) U.S. equities had a good day. No, they had a great day! In fact, on a percentage […]
Equities and the Economy This is not the déjà vu I wanted to see all over again. At least you have your health (hopefully!) because our 401K’s or portfolios continue to get pounded. Ugly is not a proper description for yesterday. Grotesque is a better word. Forget economic reports. Forget PMI’s. Forget housing starts. Forget […]
Equities and the Economy Good morning. I return from my vacation with the dubious distinction of having to report that panic struck the equity markets yesterday with U.S. stocks suffering their worst selloff in 2015. It was a broad-based rout with the S&P 500 losing 44 points (2.11%) to 2,036 and posting its biggest one […]
