The Taper begins…
Index & Sector performance 12/18/13 The Market: A strong day in the market with the gains all coming after the 2 pm EST FOMC report. The S&P 500 was in a holding pattern until just before the report when it started to drop lower. After the report there was a quick spike lower (likely on the headline of bond buying decreasing) and the S&P 500 tagged the 50 day SMA where the index then bottomed and ripped higher. From Peak to Trough the S&P 500 gained rouhgly43 points! In economic news today we saw Housing Starts handily beat expectations (1.09M…
Ben to the rescue!
Index & Sector performance 9/18/13 The Market: The clock struck 2pm EST and it is time for Big Ben and the Fed to put all the recent speculation, at least for now, to rest. Neither changes to the current $85B bond purchased program nor the fed funds target rate. That news sparked a near 30 point rally which ultimately closed up 23 points from the announcement. Besides the Federal Reserve rate decision, in economic data we had building permits and housing starts which both came in lower than the previous month and also below expectations but with all due respect…
Week in Review
DJIA +119.95 (+0.86%) to 13,981.76; S&P 500 +13.18 (+0.88%) to 1,519.79; NASDAQ +30.33 (+0.97%) I won’t spend too much time on Friday’s action but the futures seemed to have a positive tone even in early trading which I believe was build up off trading into support and holding around the 1500 level in the S&P 500. To further assist in the cause we had positive earnings reports out of two majors which I will list below. Otherwise today felt more as though we were snapping back some of the previous losses in more of a pure technical move. Two Dow names making news with…
Daily Wrap
DJIA -108.13 (-0.77%) to 13,927.54; S&P 500 -18.99 (-1.24%) to 1,511.95; NASDAQ -49.18 (-1.53%) to 3,164.41 Much of today’s down leg seemed to be attributed to the FOMC’s January 29-30 meeting minutes which indicated that several Fed members were starting to think about altering the current bond buying strategy. There are many that believe the Fed has help drive this rally so any change in policy especially one that could look as the beginning of a step back might not be overly welcomed. The markets have been in a relatively impressive climb of late so it also stands to reason that many stops may have…