[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the markets Despite the major indexes gyrating wildly above their respective unchanged lines, ahead of the Fed, in the end, the elevated levels did not hold and we slipped slightly into the red. The big winners after the interest rate hike were Gold and Crude Oil. There wasn’t really anything in the Fed announcement that …
ETF Tracker Newsletter For March 16, 2018
ETF Tracker StatSheet https://theetfbully.com/2018/03/weekly-statsheet-etf-tracker-newsletter-updated-03-15-2018/ ENDING THE WEEK ON A POSITIVE NOTE [Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the markets Not only did the S&P 500 break its losing streak on day 5, but the major indexes managed to eke out a green close for the session but ended down for the week. As I mentioned daily, the potential trade wars, along …
Equities Drop and Pop
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the markets While we opened the session on a positive note, equities started slipping and sliding being spooked by early rumors as to who would get Gary Cohn’s job. However, that talk fell by the wayside when news headlines announced not only unlimited exemptions for Canada and Mexico from Trump’s tariffs but also allowed other …
Snapping The Losing Streak
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the markets After last week’s drubbing, and an early morning pullback, the major indexes managed a broad-based bounce back with Wall Street traders looking past the trade war rhetoric by focusing on economic data and hope that the sell-off was overdone. Even political uncertainty in Italian elections, where a populist anti-euro party made a better-than-expected …
Equities Spike As Bond Yields Pull Back
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the markets After several failed rally attempts early last week, the bulls regained the upper hand with the major indexes advancing for the third day in a row. Fears, that the Fed might be on a rate hike binge, were alleviated when 2 of the Fed’s mouth pieces took front and center and calmed down …
Whip-Saw Day Keeps Dow & S&P In The Green
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the markets Treasury secretary Mnuchin’s remarks pushed the dollar (UUP) even lower, but in the end, the day was saved by President Trump stepping in with the soothing words that Mnuchin’s statement was taken out of context and a long-term strong dollar policy was still the administration’s goal. This pumped the dollar back up, after …