[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the Markets After an early slide, the major indexes managed to do a repeat pattern of what we’ve seen for the last year or so and that is to slowly crawl back to conquer the unchanged line. Today was no different, as worries about the complexity of the new tax code, concerns over deficits and …
Dow Snaps Losing Streak; Smallcaps Notch Record Close
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the Markets At least according to today’s performance, much confidence was given to Trump’s advertised sweeping tax reform, as the Russell 2000 notched not only a record close but also showed its biggest gain since the election. Strangely enough, the Fed’s Bullard came out and jawboned that “equity valuations may be stretched,” making me wonder …
ETF Tracker Newsletter For September 22, 2017
ETF Tracker StatSheet https://theetfbully.com/2017/09/weekly-statsheet-etf-tracker-newsletter-updated-09212017/ EKING OUT SMALL GAINS [Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the Markets A late bounce helped the major indexes to gain enough upward momentum to eke out some small gains for the session with the exception of the Dow, which fell short and remained in the red. Despite this rebound, Apple (AAPL) continued its September downward trend …
S&P Defends Its 2,500 Level
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the Markets The major indexes zigzagged throughout the session but ended up on a sour note by trending towards the day’s lows. The S&P 500 managed to defend its 2,500 level successfully—so far. Not helping the bulls for the second day in a row was Apple (AAPL), which dropped another -1.72% causing the Nasdaq to …
Fed Plans To Scale Back Stimulus; US Dollar Spikes; Dow & S&P Set New Records
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the Markets I had to laugh this morning when some news reports called the Nasdaq as having “plunged” in view of Apples weakness (-1.68%). It turned out that the Nasdaq merely retreated a meager -0.3% which appears to be, in that ‘new normal’ world we’re living in, quite a noteworthy drop. Go figure… Of course, …
Wall Street Bets On ‘No Interest Rate Hike’
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the Markets Despite past warnings by the Fed that more interest hikes might be forthcoming, reality appears to show a different picture. As I have posted almost daily, the 10-year bond yield spiked and made its high for the year in early March at 2.62%, after which it zigzagged to a low of 2.05% earlier …