Snapping A 7-Day Winning Streak

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[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] 1. Moving the Markets Many investors were laying in waiting to see what the ECB’s decision was going to be in regards to raising interest rates. As expected, the ECB stood pat on rates earlier Thursday and began the implementation of its larger asset-purchase program, which now totals 80 billion euros a month. However, President Mario …

Oil Gets Spanked And Indexes Slip—Domestic Buy Signal Confirmed

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[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] 1. Moving the Markets Wall Street kicked off the week to a mediocre start after posting solid gains the week prior.  Better than expected readings on jobs, manufacturing and interest rates were market movers last week.  This week, Wall Street will be focusing more on economic data, such as February factory orders and the March reading …

The Fed Blinks—Markets Rally

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[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] 1. Moving the Markets Both the Dow and S&P 500 closed at high water marks for 2016. Movement upward today was driven mostly by Janet Yellen’s speech today in New York wherein she said the central bank will “move cautiously” on interest rate hikes. The “cautious” stance is mostly due to risks of a weak global …