[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 …
Struggling To Defend Records
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the Markets While the Dow managed to eclipse the 23k milestone marker intra-day, it was not able to hold this level into the close by falling 3 points short. Nevertheless, the record is in the books with the Dow notching its 4th 1,000 point climb in the past 12 months—the most ever in a calendar …
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 …
ETF Tracker Newsletter For October 13, 2017
ETF Tracker StatSheet https://theetfbully.com/2017/10/weekly-statsheet-etf-tracker-newsletter-updated-10122017/ ENDING THE DAY AND THE WEEK WITH A GAIN [Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the Markets The trading range for the major indexes turned out to be a narrow one not just for the day but for the week as well. Nevertheless, we closed slightly up with the Nasdaq logging its 57th all-time high. While weekly …
Bouncing In A Narrow Range
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the Markets The major indexes, as well as equities in general, struggled through the session looking for some footing to use as a launching pad for the usual mid-day rebound. It worked for a while, as the unchanged line was conquered but upward momentum faded, and we closed in the red, although only fractionally. Earnings …
More All-Time Highs
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the Markets Despite the Fed’s minutes from its September meeting, including words of caution among policy makers in regards to the next interest rate hike, market odds spiked that the widely expected December hike would materialize. Further notes indicated that it might take longer than anticipated to get inflation back to the Fed’s 2% target, …