[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the Markets After yesterday’s euphoric rally, reality set in and pulled the indexes off their lofty levels. To be clear, the pullback was relatively benign compared to the gains. Contributing to the uneasiness was President Trump’s threat to shut down the government should congress continue to stonewall his efforts to build a wall along the …
Dow & S&P Score Best Daily Rise In Four Months
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the Markets Some White House mumbling about Trump’s tax reform along with renewed war mongering from last night’s speech combined to provide the fuel to drive today’s rally enabling the Dow and S&P 500 to notch their best daily gain in some four months, but the Nasdaq was the session’s top performer with +1.36%. Across …
Searching For Direction
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the Markets It was another session during which the major indexes danced around their respective unchanged lines. Early losses were wiped out for the most part, and we managed to eke out a tiny gain with the exception of the Nasdaq, which closed slightly in the red. In the ETF spectrum that we are invested …
Indexes Slide But ‘Buy Signals’ Remain Intact
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the Markets Not only did the Dow’s 4-day win streak come to an end today, all 3 major indexes showed the same pattern; that is slowly deteriorating momentum throughout the session and closing at the lows. There were no green numbers to be found only varying degrees of losses. Faring the best, were International SmallCaps …
Struggling To Stay Above Water
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the Markets An early rally, ahead of the Fed minutes, fizzled after their release with the S&P 500 kissing its unchanged line before rebounding and ending up slightly in the green. The Dow and Nasdaq followed suit in similar fashion. Contributing to some turmoil was President Trump’s decision to disband his advisory panel while political …
Hugging The Unchanged Line
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the Markets Equities struggled all day to find some direction, but the session turned out to be nothing but aimless meandering around the unchanged line with the major indexes essentially remaining unchanged. SmallCaps (SCHA) fared the worst with a loss of -0.68% closely followed by MidCaps (SCHM) giving back -0.31%. On the winning side, semiconductors …