[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the Markets After an early slide, the major indexes managed to do a repeat pattern of what we’ve seen for the last year or so and that is to slowly crawl back to conquer the unchanged line. Today was no different, as worries about the complexity of the new tax code, concerns over deficits and …
Dow Snaps Losing Streak; Smallcaps Notch Record Close
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the Markets At least according to today’s performance, much confidence was given to Trump’s advertised sweeping tax reform, as the Russell 2000 notched not only a record close but also showed its biggest gain since the election. Strangely enough, the Fed’s Bullard came out and jawboned that “equity valuations may be stretched,” making me wonder …
Summer Blues
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the Markets Due to a 2-day business trip, the next 2 market reports will be short and sweet. The major indexes slipped and spent the entire session below their respective unchanged lines, but saving the day were SmallCaps and Transports scoring small gains, but gains nonetheless. For the month the Transportation index is up some …
Weekly StatSheet For The ETF Tracker Newsletter – Updated Through 09/21/2017
ETF Data updated through Thursday, September 21, 2017 Methodology/Use of this StatSheet: From the universe of over 1,800 ETFs, I have selected only those with a trading volume of over $5 million per day (HV ETFs), so that liquidity and a small bid/ask spread are assured. Trend Tracking Indexes (TTIs) Buy or Sell decisions for Domestic and International ETFs (section …
S&P Defends Its 2,500 Level
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the Markets The major indexes zigzagged throughout the session but ended up on a sour note by trending towards the day’s lows. The S&P 500 managed to defend its 2,500 level successfully—so far. Not helping the bulls for the second day in a row was Apple (AAPL), which dropped another -1.72% causing the Nasdaq to …
Fed Plans To Scale Back Stimulus; US Dollar Spikes; Dow & S&P Set New Records
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the Markets I had to laugh this morning when some news reports called the Nasdaq as having “plunged” in view of Apples weakness (-1.68%). It turned out that the Nasdaq merely retreated a meager -0.3% which appears to be, in that ‘new normal’ world we’re living in, quite a noteworthy drop. Go figure… Of course, …