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Europe: +44 (0) 207 198 1634 Equities and the Economy: • Multiple major U.S. indexes hit yet another record high. • Corporate earnings the driver. Better than expected corporate earnings from Morgan Stanley brought out the buyers yesterday who pushed numerous U.S. indices to new record highs including the Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq. The Dow climbed 66 points to 21,641, […]
Equities and the Economy: • S&P 500 and Nasdaq close at record highs. • Trading volume very low. U.S. stocks shrugged off concerns of the failure of Senate Republicans to push through a healthcare bill with both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq posting new record highs. The former did so barely edging up a single […]
Equities and the Economy: • Stocks end little changed. • Nasdaq logs 7th straight higher session. U.S. stocks ended little changed yesterday although the Nasdaq, by gaining a mere 2 points, did post its 7th consecutive higher session closing at 6,314, just shy of its record close of 6,322 set on June 8th. The Dow […]
Equities and the Economy: • U.S. equities hit record highs. • Weaker economic data suggest slower interest rate hikes. The last Morning Energy Blog was last Monday discussing the previous Friday’s market action and I can tell you it was a good week. The Dow and S&P 500 closed at record highs on Friday and […]
Record levels of solar and wind generation in the last year along with low seasonal demand for nuclear energy led renewable energy generation to exceed nuclear generation for the first time in over 30 years. While this is expected to be a short-term reversal of “normal” electricity generation, renewables could soon overtake nuclear generation for […]
Equities and the Economy: • Solid June employment report. • Stocks notch small weekly gain. Stocks closed higher on Friday with the Dow gaining 94 points closing at 21,414, the S&P 500 adding 15 ending at 2,425 and the Nasdaq finishing up 64 points at 6,153. Friday’s strength was enough to push all three indexes […]
Equities and the Economy: • Dow and S&P little changed. • Nasdaq rallies after 3 losing sessions. The Dow and S&P 500 ended little changed after the holiday with the former closing down a point at 21,478 and the latter ending up 4 at 2,433. The Nasdaq, after closing in the red for the previous […]
Equities and the Economy: • Dow and S&P flat over the last 5 days. • Nasdaq coming back “in line.” The last Morning Energy Blog was last Thursday reflecting Wednesday’s price action so let’s see what’s happened since then. For the Dow and S&P 500, nothing. Both are very, very marginally lower compared to last […]
Equities and the Economy: • S&P posts biggest one-day gain in 2 months. • Nasdaq has best 1 day-gain in 8 months. It’s been a very, very fickle month for stocks. Why do I say this? Because the S&P 500 has had its 3 biggest daily gains and its 2 worst daily losses of the […]
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