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Europe: +44 (0) 207 198 1634 Equities and the Economy Good morning and happy National Tuba Day. It was a second consecutive bad day for stocks all around the world yesterday with the Dow falling 195 points (1.08%) and once again below 18,000 to 17,841. The S&P 500 lost 21 (0.99%) to 2,086 and the Nasdaq got pounded like Mayweather and […]
Equities and the Economy Good morning and happy National Bugs Bunny Day. Well the market was asking “What’s up doc?” yesterday or more appropriately, what’s up with these markets with the Dow falling 74 points ending at 18,036, the S&P 500 closing down 8 at 2,107 and the Nasdaq off 31 to 5,024. Although the […]
Equities and the Economy Good morning and happy Shrimp Scampi Day. In another choppy day U.S. stocks closed mixed with the Dow gaining 72 points and the S&P 500 climbing 6 to 2,11. It would have been a trifecta of green except the Nasdaq lost 5 to 5,055. Twitter was a big anchor on the […]
Equities and the Economy Good morning and happy National Talk Like Shakespeare Day. U.S. equities ended higher yesterday after a choppy day of trading. The Dow closed up 89 points and once again over 18,000 at 18,038. The S&P 5000 added 11 to 2,108. The Nasdaq finished 21 points higher at 5,035 which is just […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Equities and the Economy Happy first day of Spring! It just seems we can’t get any momentum in stocks. Literally it’s one day up and the next day down. After the big Fed induced rally on Wednesday U.S. stocks retreated on Thursday with the Dow falling 117 points (0.65%) and back below 18,000 to 17,959 […]
Equities and the Economy Happy Let’s Laugh Day, which is globally celebrated day. The FOMC concluded their two day meeting and with great anticipation and the world parsed very word of the post-meeting communique. And there was no “patience.” So you would have thought equities would have gotten pounded because the lack of “patience” means […]
