[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] 1. Moving The Markets U.S. stocks inched higher as Apple’s (AAPL) strong earnings report proved to be not enough to ease fears over an escalating tension between Russia and Ukraine. The major indexes inched higher as the chart above shows. Notable gainers today were Aetna (AET), who reported its first quarter EPS results of $1.98, beating …
Stocks Pull Back, But Corporate Earnings Continue To Deliver
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] 1. Moving The Markets The stock market pulled back today after a solid six consecutive days of gains. The S&P 500 dropped 0.24%, the Dow finished down 0.07% and the Nasdaq led the pack dropping 0.83% on the day. Apple (AAPL) captured headlines today after reporting that it sold 43.7 million iPhones in Q1, which was …
Keep Those Corporate Earnings Reports Coming!!
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] 1. Moving The Markets U.S. stock markets continued their rally today, driven largely by positive corporate news and earnings announcements. The major indexes all gained as the chart above shows. The health-care sector led the eight of ten S&P 500 sectors that finished higher on the day. Driving health-care gains was the news from the pharmaceutical …
Corporate Earnings Continue To Impress Investors
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] 1. Moving The Markets Another big week of corporate earnings announcements is underway and markets reacted well to positive earnings announcements from companies such as Haliburton (HAL), Netflix (NFLX) and Hasbro (HAS). The S&P 500 gained 0.4% ending the day exactly where we started on April 1st. The continued climb of the markets over the past …
One Man’s Opinion: Will The S&P 500 Finish Above 2,000 By Year End?
The recent decline in the stock markets can be characterized as an internal correction as broad averages like the S&P 500 didn’t correct much, said Ed Yardeni, President and Chief Investment Strategist at Yardeni Research. True, NASDAQ had a bigger correction, but if one focuses on the sectors that witnessed sizeable corrections such as biotech and internet stocks, they were …
ETF/No Load Fund Tracker Newsletter For April 18, 2014
ETF/No Load Fund Tracker StatSheet ————————————————————- THE LINK TO OUR CURRENT ETF/MUTUAL FUND STATSHEET IS: https://theetfbully.com/2014/04/weekly-statsheet-for-the-etfno-load-fund-tracker-newsletter-updated-through-04172014/ ———————————————————— Market Commentary Friday, April 18, 2014 AFTER A SLOW START, INDEXES PICK UP MOMENTUM [Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] 1. Moving The Markets During this Holiday shortened week, the major indexes managed a strong comeback with the S&P 500 gaining 2.7%, which was its …