[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the markets After Friday’s drubbing, and in view of China’s stock market getting clobbered at the tune of some -8%, domestic equities jumped right after the opening bell. While the latter part of the session was flat, the major indexes made up some lost ground in part thanks to optimism that the coronavirus will be …
ETF Tracker Newsletter For January 31, 2020
ETF Tracker StatSheet You can view the latest version here. SLAMMED BY THE VIRUS [Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the markets Even Amazon’s strong quarterly results, and its subsequent 9% jump in stock price, could not stem the slide, as the ongoing coronavirus epidemic continued full force, with travel and trade disruptions now becoming a more real threat to …
Weekly StatSheet For The ETF Tracker Newsletter – Updated Through 01/30/2020
ETF Data updated through Thursday, January 30, 2020 Methodology/Use of this StatSheet: 1. From the universe of over 1,800 ETFs, I have selected only those with a trading volume of over $5 million per day (HV ETFs), so that liquidity and a small bid/ask spread are assured. 2. Trend Tracking Indexes (TTIs) Buy or Sell decisions for Domestic and International …
Upbeat Earnings Overpower Virus Concerns
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the markets Right after the opening bell, the markets headed south following the global negative sentiment caused by a sell-off in Asia, as coronavirus issues again fanned fears of slowing economic growth worldwide. Concerns about the epidemic’s impact first overpowered upbeat earnings news from Microsoft and Tesla, with airline stocks falling due to the travel …
Going Nowhere
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the markets In the end, today was nothing but one gigantic roller coaster ride, as an early rally lost steam, then found some fresh upward momentum, which was all given back at the close. Maybe the early pump was the result of Apple’s blow-out earnings announced yesterday after the close, but it sure had no …
Climbing Out Of A Hole
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the markets Despite coming off the intra-day highs at the close, the major indexes managed to climb out of hole, and close in the green for the first time in the past three trading sessions, although a major short-squeeze gave an assist in that effort. Coronavirus fears subsided a little, as China appears to have …