Do you buy the dip?
Index & Sector performance 1/28/14 The Market: In the overnight session the futures managed to recover gaining nearly 20 points from Monday’s lows. When the Durables number was announced and came in much worse than expected the market puled back challenging support but that support held and by the open the market was back near the pre-market highs. The remainder of the day the S&P 500 stayed in a relatively tight trading range with all of the major indices closing higher. In Economic news the Durable Goods numbers came in much worse than expected with Core Durable Goods Orders posting…
Daily Wrap
DJIA +7.22 (+0.05%) to 13,986.52; S&P 500 +0.83 (+0.05%) to 1,512.12; NASDAQ -3.10 (-0.10%) to 3,168.48 Today was a sloppy up day that saw the S&P 500 spend the majority of the day down except for a midday and then end of day rally which equate to less than a 1 point gain. I noted last night that this week does not have much in the way of planned economic data or events and therefore it is likely that the headlines will be focused on the earnings being announced. Today seems to be an example of how there just didn’t…