April 26, 2024

Week in Review

DJIA +17.21 (+0.13%) to 13,488.43; S&P 500 -0.07 (+0.00%) to 1,472.05; NASDAQ +3.88 (+0.12%) to 3,125.64 Today’s action started with the S&P 500 moving lower but recovering to essentially close flat while the Dow and Nasdaq managed to squeak our small gains.  Not to shabby after just making new 5 year closing highs. In the news today was Best Buy Co.’s (BBY) which didn’t wow people with its same-store sales which were down 1.4% but what did impress and send the stock over 16% higher was the improvement in the US.  The US is a mor focus for the BBY turn around and today’s move took the stock back to where it was for…

Daily Wrap

DJIA +61.66 (+0.46%) to 13,390.51; S&P 500 +3.87 (+0.27%) to 1,461.02; NASDAQ +14.00 (+0.45%) to 3,105.81 The highs for today were set in very early trading and then the rest of the day was spent pulling back although never going into negative territory.  I would define today as orderly and we do have Unemployment data tomorrow so I am not surprised to see a quiet day ahead. Apollo Group Inc.’s (APOL) was in the new today and in negative fashion.  After the close yesterday, APOL reported Net Income that were 11% lower than the previous year but still beat on…