[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the Markets Some better than expected corporate earnings helped the major indexes to shake off yesterday’s bearish mood and remain above the unchanged line with the exception of the Nasdaq, which slipped a tad. Helping the markets was news that the House of Representatives squeezed out a budget bill allowing the Senate to later pass …
Coming Off The Highs
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the Markets Some earnings disappointments pulled the rug out from under the major indexes causing them to drop around -0.5% across the board. The big losers were Chipotle (CMG) and AMD, which tanked -14.58% and -13.47% respectively. Also weighing on the markets were Boeing, Goldman, IBM and Caterpillar. Looking at the big picture, all S&P …
Dow Powers Into Record Territory
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the Markets The Dow got a huge assist today from Caterpillar (CAT) and 3M, which jumped after showing a better than expected quarterly report card. Both components contributed some 150 points to the Dow’s 168 point gain—into record territory. It was a narrow advance with Healthcare (XLV) bucking the overall positive trend (-0.56%) thereby limiting …
Dow & S&P 500 End 6-Day Winning Streak
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the Markets It had to happen eventually. The winning streak came to an end today, as uncertainty reigned in regards to tax cuts and corporate earnings, of which some 200 S&P companies are scheduled to report this week. Of course, given current market levels, we are way overdue for a pause. Interestingly, the markets did …
IBM Surges And Pushes Dow To New Record
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the Markets Sometimes you just have to laugh. The Dow rallied sharply by some 160 points with over 100 of them coming from IBM’s jump in stock price of almost 9%, its best in 9 years. You’d think that IBM’s earnings report card set the world on fire, but that was not the case, as …
Crawling Deeper Into Record Territory
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the Markets And the theme continued with the major indexes slowly but surely scoring another round of records, as the Dow closed within spitting distance of a new milestone marker, namely the 23,000 level. All of this came in anticipation that the upcoming earnings season won’t disappoint but to also confirm that the current lofty …