[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the Markets While Hurricane Harvey unleashed his enormous power over the weekend, the major indexes escaped pretty much unscathed and spent the session bouncing around their respective unchanged lines. The Nasdaq fared the best by gaining +0.28%. Retailers, along with the energy and financial sectors, slid early on but were not able to stage a …
ETF Tracker Newsletter For August 25, 2017
ETF Tracker StatSheet https://theetfbully.com/2017/08/weekly-statsheet-etf-tracker-newsletter-updated-08242017/ SNAPPING A TWO-WEEK LOSING STREAK [Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the Markets Anticipation was high ahead of speeches by Yellen and Draghi, which was reflected in the early rally right after the markets opened. However, disappointment set in as neither one offered any clues about future monetary policy moves. Despite an ugly last hour dive in …
Rally Peters Out…
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the Markets After yesterday’s euphoric rally, reality set in and pulled the indexes off their lofty levels. To be clear, the pullback was relatively benign compared to the gains. Contributing to the uneasiness was President Trump’s threat to shut down the government should congress continue to stonewall his efforts to build a wall along the …
Dow & S&P Score Best Daily Rise In Four Months
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the Markets Some White House mumbling about Trump’s tax reform along with renewed war mongering from last night’s speech combined to provide the fuel to drive today’s rally enabling the Dow and S&P 500 to notch their best daily gain in some four months, but the Nasdaq was the session’s top performer with +1.36%. Across …
Searching For Direction
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the Markets It was another session during which the major indexes danced around their respective unchanged lines. Early losses were wiped out for the most part, and we managed to eke out a tiny gain with the exception of the Nasdaq, which closed slightly in the red. In the ETF spectrum that we are invested …
ETF Tracker Newsletter For August 18, 2017
ETF Tracker StatSheet https://theetfbully.com/2017/08/weekly-statsheet-etf-tracker-newsletter-updated-08172017/ THE ROLLER COASTER RIDE CONTINUES [Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the Markets A mid-day rally, or was it a dead cat bounce, evaporated with the major indexes closing again below the unchanged line, although by only a slight margin. Volume was low, as it usually is during summer months which, when combined with nervous investors, leaves …