S&P on 5 day win streak
Index & Sector performance 4/21/14 The Market: The S&P 500 has been on an impressive 5 day winning streak but much like the “V” bottom we say back in February this year, this rally is coming on lower than average volume with today being by far the lowest in the S&P 500 sector ETF “SPY”. We stated in our 4/14 write-up that we would not be surprised to see the market used short term oversold levels and the shortened holiday Op-Ex week to rally. The question now is as traders get back to the desk in both the U.S….
The Market’s all a TWTR
Index & Sector performance 11/4/13 The Market: A gap higher in the S&P was quickly sold down to 11:30 am EST where the market found support and then rallied to the close making new highs for the day in the final few minutes. In economic data Factory orders came in lighter than expected and while there was some Fed speak, nothing too groundbreaking. Tomorrow we see ISM and Economic Optimism. Looming Thursday is the Unemployment Claims data which has a very low estimate and looks like a softball for the markets to beat. A big miss with already low expectations…
Analyst Comments
Analyst comments for Monday (11/19/12) See the Upgrades/Downgrades section for complete & cleaner list Upgrades Company Symbol Brokerage Firm Upgraded to: Price Target ($) CSC CSC Deutsche Bank Buy 46 Randgold Resources GOLD RBC Capital Outperform N/A Enerplus Resources ERF RBC Capital Outperform 18 Agnico-Eagle AEM RBC Capital Outperform 69 PetSmart PETM Barclays Overweight 75 Dean Foods DF Goldman Sachs Buy 22 Agilent A Goldman Sachs Buy 59 Bruker BRKR Goldman Sachs Buy 19 Barclays BCS Goldman Sachs Buy N/A Flowers Foods FLO KeyBanc Buy 25 Actuant ATU KeyBanc Buy N/A Provident PFS Sterne Agee Buy 15…