April 25, 2024

Week in Review

DJIA +43.85 (+0.33%) to 13,435.21; S&P 500 +7.10 (+0.49%) to 1,466.47; NASDAQ +1.09 (+0.04%) to 3,101.66 Hopefully slow and steady will win the race when it comes to the Jobs market.  Adding another 155K non-farm jobs  was just a tick above analysts expectations and the revised Unemployment rate for November to 7.8% held into December. The market started the morning somewhat choppy while seemingly digest the morning’s economic data and then started a near uninterrupted climb closing near highs of the day. Supervalu (SVU) gapped higher and closed up over 13.5% on a Wall Street Journal report that private equity firm Cerberus Capital is close…

Daily Wrap

DJIA +166.03 (+1.28%) to 13,104.14; S&P 500 +23.76 (+1.69%) to 1,426.19; NASDAQ +59.20 (+2.00%) to 3,019.51 Today started with a gap lower that only lasted the first 10-15 minutes and we were off to the races for the rest of the day.  There was some small economic news out today that was better than expected but the rally and optimism was on the headlines that congress was close to a fiscal cliff deal and the majority of the headlines were different congressional opinions and updates regarding the cliff. In the news today was Duff & Phelps (DUF) which agreed to…