[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] US stocks barely budged after another day of low volume trading as shrinking economies in Europe and Japan overshadowed better-than-expected jobless claims on a banner day for M&A deals. The US jobless claims fell by 27,000, the most in a month, to 341,000 in the week ended Feb 9, a Labor Department report showed; that is …
US Stocks Crawl Higher On Data, Speech; Europe Extends Gains For The Second Day
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] While blue-chips declined, most US stocks closed marginally higher Wednesday, sending the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index to the highest level since Oct 2007 as investors compared slowing retail sales with slightly upbeat earnings report. Before markets opened, data released by the Census Bureau showed US retail sales rose at a seasonally adjusted pace of 0.1 …
ETF/No Load Fund Tracker Newsletter For Friday, January 25, 2013
ETF/No Load Fund Tracker StatSheet ————————————————————- THE LINK TO OUR CURRENT ETF/MUTUAL FUND STATSHEET IS: https://theetfbully.com/2013/01/weekly-statsheet-for-the-etfno-load-fund-tracker-newsletter-updated-through-01242013/ ———————————————————— Market Commentary Friday, January 25, 2013 US EQUITY ETFs FINISH WEEK ON A HIGH; EUROPE RISES ON GERMAN CONFIDENCE US equities rose Friday, lifting the S&P 500 index above the 1,500 mark for the first time since late 2007, as investors welcomed a …
Tech Shares Decline As Apple Slumps; S&P 500 Touches 1,500 Level; Europe Rises On Upbeat PMI Data
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] The major market indexes mostly rose Thursday, with the Dow Jones gaining for a fifth day and the S&P 500 briefly topping the 1,500 mark as an unexpected drop in unemployment claims and upbeat corporate results offset the worst decline for Apple Inc in four years. Apple Inc slumped 12 percent to $450.50 after reporting the …