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Europe: +44 (0) 207 198 1634 Equities and the Economy After a ten day wild roller coaster ride U.S. equities took the day off yesterday with all the major indexes not doing much. While the Dow closed 14 points higher at 16,790, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq closed lower. The former lost 7 points ending at 1,980 and the latter fell […]
Equities and the Economy Good morning. Rally on, baby, rally on! Yesterday the Dow scored its biggest daily rise in about a month jumping more than 300 points and the S&P 500 finished with gains for the 5th consecutive session, its longest winning stretch since last December. When the bell rang ending the day the […]
Equities and the Economy Good morning. Crazy is an understatement for Friday’s price action! So how crazy was it??? Friday was the most volatile single day for the S&P 500 and Dow in four years, specifically, October 4, 2011! And the great news was that it was for the good! Early in day after the […]
AUSTIN, Texas – The world can transition to 100 percent renewable energy by the year 2050, according to a new report from Greenpeace. The plan calls for phasing out oil and gas at a rate that matches the depletion of existing fields, and warns exploration for new fields should be seen as high-risk investments since those fossil […]
Equities and the Economy As I suspected and mentioned in Wednesday’s Morning Energy Report, U.S. equities were lackluster yesterday with Dow falling 13 points to 16,272, the S&P 500 inching up 4 to 1,924 and the Nasdaq 7 to 4,627. The numbers at the closing bell were all chatter but intraday traders really tried hard […]
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Energy Disruptions Hurricane Joaquin, which strengthened to a Category 4 storm on Thursday, is on track to move north along the East Coast this weekend, potentially bringing torrential rainfall and flooding to the region. To help analysts assess potential storm effects, EIA maintains an energy disruptions map that displays energy infrastructure and […]
Equities and the Economy HOORAY! Finally a good day for equities. No, check that. A great day! Following big gains in Asia equities, U.S. stocks closed out Q3 hugely higher with the Dow gaining a hefty 236 points, 1.47%, closing at 16,285, the S&P 500 climbing 36, 1.91%, to 1,920 and the Nasdaq led all […]
A new report finds much of the low-hanging fruit has already been picked, but the options higher up are worth the effort Energy efficiency used to be easy with narrow options. But now a smorgasbord of technological options and standards have emerged, complicating what used to be a simple process. A decades-long shift towards compact fluorescent […]
Equities and the Economy After getting unabashedly bludgeoned for 7 trading sessions healthcare stocks rebounded yesterday giving the S&P 500 its first gain in 6 days, although it was hardly something to write home to mom about. The S&P 500 gained a tiny 2 points closing at 1,884, the Dow did marginally better adding 47 […]
Equities and the Economy Good morning. Not a good day folks. Not a good day at all. U.S. equities followed European stocks lower with the latter closing down between 2.12% and 2.76% while stocks here in the U.S. fell about the same. When the bloodletting was over the Dow lost 313 points, 1.92% closing at […]
