March 28, 2024

No Summers….Yee Haw!

The Market: After Larry Summers took himself off the Fed Chair block, the markets baked in expectations of Janet Yellen who many feel will be more accommodating than Summer may have been.  The possibility of more stimulus from the fed or at least the likelihood that stimulus would persist was enough to send S&P 500 futures gaping higher Sunday evening and showing strength early in the trading session but the open marked the highs and the S&P 500 lost ground the remainder of the day closing 7 points off the highs. Economic data was light today but also ignored due…

Daily Wrap

DJIA +24.50 (+0.17%) to 14,700.80; S&P 500 +6.37 (+0.40%) to 1,585.16; NASDAQ +14.54 (+0.51%) to 2,848.66 The S&P 500 started with a small gap higher after a better than expected Unemployment claims number (339K vs 352K) which then waffled for the initial trading and then started to press higher.  After an intraday consolidation, the S&P 500 again until around 2:30 pm EST when the index started to fade and continued lower until roughly the end of the day.  While still closing higher, the S&P was roughly 7 points off the high. As we are in the thick of the earnings reports, each day…

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…