[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] 1. Moving the Markets Stocks drifted in and out of positive territory most of the morning, but turned downwards in afternoon trading as investors digested economic reports that showed an uptick in inflation and a big jump in new-home sales in February. Before the closing bell, the Labor Department reported that consumer prices were up 0.2%, …
Going Nowhere
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] 1. Moving the Markets The indexes meandered throughout the trading day but were not able to sustain early upside momentum. In the last few minutes of trading, the indexes puked and finished in the red, although by only a small margin given last week’s advance. Concern remained in the currency arena where the dollars advance has …
ETF/No Load Fund Tracker Newsletter For March 20, 2015
ETF/No Load Fund Tracker StatSheet ————————————————————- THE LINK TO OUR CURRENT ETF/MUTUAL FUND STATSHEET IS: https://theetfbully.com/2015/03/weekly-statsheet-for-the-etfno-load-fund-tracker-newsletter-updated-through-03192015/ ———————————————————— Market Commentary Friday, March 20, 2015 STOCKS CLOSE VOLATILE WEEK ON POSITIVE NOTE [Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] 1. Moving the Markets It was a volatile week of trading, but U.S. stocks capped off Friday in positive territory lifted by a positive slew of …
Sliding Oil Prices Take The Starch Out Of Markets
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] 1. Moving the Markets Markets were all peachy yesterday upon the Fed’s sentiment of keeping interest rates low for the near future. However, today was a new day and, as you know, market sentiment can change on a dime daily. Of the three major indexes, only the Nasdaq composite gained slightly. Oil seemed to be the …
Markets Bullish On Fed Sentiment; Windows 10 This Summer?
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] 1. Moving the Markets In a statement, the Fed, as expected, did drop its promise to be “patient” as it weighs interest rate hikes. Still, investors reacted bullishly to the suggestion that rate hikes were not baked in for June either, as feared, which potentially pushes out the first rate hike even later in the year. …
Markets Lower Anticipating Fed Meeting
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] 1. Moving the Markets The Fed kicked off their two-day meeting today. Of course, the hot topic of late is whether or not they will raise interest rates in the near future. The general consensus around the news today is that the Fed is likely to announce that they will remain patient over the next couple …