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Europe: +44 (0) 207 198 1634 Good morning. Equities around the world got a one-two punch for global growth on Friday! Kudos go to Mario Draghi but even more to the People Bank of China (PBOC). Mr. Draghi, President of the ECB, stated on Friday the economy in the eurozone was weaker than had been feared and inflation lower than had […]
Good morning. World markets slipped. Japan’s yen fell to another 7 year low. And the Dow and S&P 500 hit record highs again with the former closing 33 points higher at 17,719 and the latter adding 4 points to 2,053. This was a nice rebound for when I wrote this report yesterday morning Dow futures […]
Good morning. After hitting new highs on Tuesday U.S. equities slipped back yesterday but the damage was extremely minor. The Dow lost 2 to 17,686, the S&P 500 ended down 3 to 2,049 while the Nasdaq fared much worse shedding 27 points to 4,676. Not bad considering the S&P has hit 8 record highs and […]
Good morning. It appears investors are getting into the holiday season. Yesterday they once again pushed the Dow and S&P 500 to record highs. Whoo-hoo-hoo! The numbers were the Dow popped 40 points, 0.2% to 17,688, the S&P 500 rose 11, 0.5%, to 2,052 and the Nasdaq did the best up 31 points, 0.7%, to […]
Good morning. Natural gas gets the lead position today. The cold weather over the past week or so has been a crank on a spring turning it tighter and tighter and tighter. Yesterday the spring sprung in full force. The December natural gas contract exploded 32.1¢, 6.9%, higher yesterday closing at $4.341. Yesterday’s move was […]
Good morning. As you regular readers know, I usually begin this report with equities for equities often influence oil prices (natural gas operates in its own little world!) but today oil gets the lead spot. Why? Because yesterday both WTI and Brent hit 4 year lows. WTI closed down a whopping $2.97, 3.9%, at $74.21 […]
Good morning. Trifecta. Heard the term? No, I’m not talking about the horserace track. I’m talking about U.S. equities. Specifically, a Dow Trifecta. That’s when the Dow Industrials, the Dow Transports and the Dow Utilities all close at record highs. Yesterday the Dow jumped 101 points closing at 17,485. The Dow Transports rose 0.47% and […]
Good morning. You know what today is? It’s the day you poor souls in states where there were contested congressional or gubernatorial races stop getting barraged with caustic television ads and political survey calls blowing up your telephone during dinner! Three cheers! Last night’s midterm elections were more exciting than the action in yesterday’s equities […]
Good morning. Last week ended great on Friday with U.S. equities surging. The Dow jumped 195 points, 1.1%, to 17,391, the S&P 500 climbed 23, 1.2%, to 2,018 and the Nasdaq leaped 65, 1.4%, to 4,631. And, oh, did I mention the Dow and S&P closed at record highs?! Whoo-hoo! I felt like I was […]
Good Morning. We got back from a wild week yesterday with everyone wondering if the bears would emerge from their hibernation over the weekend and pick up where they left off last Thursday. Well the market worked really hard to not make a lot of noise and not wake the bears yesterday and stocks moved […]
