[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] US stocks turned sharply lower Wednesday, falling from five-year highs after minutes from the Federal Reserve’s last meeting showed the central bank may scale back its bond buying program. In other words, the odds have increased that the spiked punch bowl will be watered down. The Fed’s Open Market Committee had said the central bank would continue buying …
US Indexes Hit Fresh Five-Year Highs; European Stocks Rally As German Sentiment Improves
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] US stocks finished higher Tuesday, sending the Dow Industrials and S&P 500 to new five-year highs, buoyed by a rise in corporate deal making and an improvement in German investor sentiment. OfficeMax Inc vaulted 21 percent while Office Depot Inc jumped 9.4 percent after the Wall Street Journal reported Monday (a market holiday) that the companies were in …
ETF/No Load Fund Tracker Newsletter For Friday, February 15, 2013
ETF/No Load Fund Tracker StatSheet ————————————————————- THE LINK TO OUR CURRENT ETF/MUTUAL FUND STATSHEET IS: https://theetfbully.com/2013/02/weekly-statsheet-for-the-etfno-load-fund-tracker-newsletter-updated-through-02142013/ ———————————————————— Market Commentary Friday, February 15, 2013 US STOCKS SLIDE AS WAL-MART WEIGHS AMID ECONOMIC DATA; EUROPE FALLS AHEAD OF G20 MEETING US equities closed mostly lower Friday with the S&P 500 snapping three days of gains in choppy trading as positive economic data …
Stocks Barely Move On European Concern; Recession Weighs On Europe
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] US stocks barely budged after another day of low volume trading as shrinking economies in Europe and Japan overshadowed better-than-expected jobless claims on a banner day for M&A deals. The US jobless claims fell by 27,000, the most in a month, to 341,000 in the week ended Feb 9, a Labor Department report showed; that is …
US Stocks Crawl Higher On Data, Speech; Europe Extends Gains For The Second Day
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] While blue-chips declined, most US stocks closed marginally higher Wednesday, sending the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index to the highest level since Oct 2007 as investors compared slowing retail sales with slightly upbeat earnings report. Before markets opened, data released by the Census Bureau showed US retail sales rose at a seasonally adjusted pace of 0.1 …
Market Indexes Inch Upward As Dow Hits Five-Year High; Europe Gains on Barclays
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] US equities edged up Tuesday sending benchmark indexes to five-year highs, as earnings topped street estimates and investors looked ahead to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address in the evening. In economic news, the US Treasury reported a budget surplus of $2.9 billion for January, beating estimates of a $2 billion deficit. Overseas, finance …