We’ve reached the end of the week and what a week it has been. A couple of overextended streaks came to an end during the trading week, including a Dow and Financials Select Spiders ETF (XLF) losing streak. In our daily market dispatch yesterday morning, we discussed the potential for XLF going forward. “While the…
Divergence! A one-word sentence used appropriately to describe last week’s trading action where the Dow was significantly lower than its peer indices. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 119.19 points to 24,580.89 on Friday. Friday’s close marked the first gain for the index in nine sessions, snapping its longest losing streak since March 2017. Looking more…
That wasn’t as bad as it could have been or maybe even should have been, now was it? The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1.2%, or 287.26 points, to close at 24,700.21. At its intraday low, the Dow was down by as many as 420 points. Tuesday’s decline marked the 6th straight drop for the Dow,…
Can it do it? Can the markets really shrug off the FOMC rate hike, the ECB’s scheduling of an end to its QE program and the declaration of $50bn in tariffs on Chinese goods? It’s not looking like U.S. equities will perform such a herculean accomplishment at the moment, with futures lower by less than…
While equity markets around the globe hit the pause button ahead of an onslaught of central bank announcements and press conferences, the beat must go on. In yesterday’s trading action, the Dow finished basically flat with the S&P 500 up .17% to 2,786. The tech-heavy Nasdaq was the outperformer once again, finishing higher by .57…
With Apple (AAPL) and Netflix (NFLX) both recording record highs, the Nasdaq finished Tuesday’s trading session with a 2nd consecutive closing record high. Unfortunately, the broader S&P 500 was only slightly higher on the day with the Dow finishing flat to slightly lower on the day. Even with the threat of retaliatory tariffs against the…
It was a rather mundane Tuesday until the late afternoon on Wall Street. The major averages meandered for much of the trading session up until the point where President Trump offered his negative opinions on China trade talks to the press. The Dow, which started Tuesday’s session on a high note, dropped nearly 200 points…
The vast majority of traders trading the equity markets find their experiences to be underwhelming and often littered with losses. Unfortunately, that is the hard truth and something most dismiss when they embark on their journey to personally and actively trade the equity markets. “I’m different. I know what I’m doing. I can manage my…
U.S. equity markets bounced back yesterday with modest gains across the major indices. Standing out this Thursday, the small-cap benchmark Russell 2000 index hit an all-time high of 1,620.64. The index also closed at a record, ending at 1,616.37, a gain of 16.03 points, or 1 percent. This while the 10-yr T-bill continued its sell-off, producing…
After 8-straight positive closing sessions, the Dow fell a little more than half a percent yesterday. Much of the blame for the near 200-point decline was attributed to the 10-yr. T-bill. The yield on the benchmark 10-yr. T-bill note early Tuesday climbed to match its highest levels since 2011 after a strong retail sales number.…
