[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 …
Dow Slips For 2nd Straight Day
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the Markets Yesterday’s slippage continued early this morning, but dip buyers stepped in encouraged by a NT Times story alleging that Trump’s ‘Fire and Fury’ words were his own and not US policy. During the last hour, the whipping boy of the year, AKA the VIX, was spanked again and while helping the indexes recover, …
Dow Pumps And Dollar Dumps
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the Markets Thanks to an assist from Apple’s (AAPL) almost 5% gain on blow-out earnings, the Dow managed to conquer the much anticipated 22,000 level for the first time, which makes it its third 1,000-point milestone of the year. The close above 22k was the seventh fastest milestone move, with the last one having occurred …
Low Volume, No News, Markets In Record Territory
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the Markets Despite IBM being a drag on the Dow (about -47 points), and the Transportation index (IYT) stumbling for the third day in a row, its biggest drop in 2 months, all three major indexes were able to march into record territory on low volume and no earthshaking news. Helping the bullish cause were …