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By Josh Hayes on February 10, 2007
It is kind of odd that a comments from the St. Louis Fed head William Poole, Cleveland Fed head Sandra Pianalto, and Dallas Fed head Richard Fisher could kick start a selloff like it did today, but that is in fact what happened. Stocks started off strong but his comments that he would vote for [...]
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By Josh Hayes on January 22, 2007
Stocks started the day off rough and only got worse as the LEI was delayed. The delay helped the selloff pick up steam and stocks quickly dropped to their low’s on the day. However, like usual, buyers stepped in to help support a declining market. However, by the close, their buying could not prop the [...]
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By Josh Hayes on January 12, 2007
Stocks gapped up in the morning, held those levels, and rallied for the rest of the day on the back of another back-breaking decline in oil. This huge 4% drop in oil helped the entire market rally, on Thursday. Oil has now fell 15% in 2007. At the close, with techs and small caps leading, [...]
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By Josh Hayes on January 11, 2007
A day of minor volatility gave way to a nice rally after 1pm EST sending all the indexes in a nice solid uptrend into the close. The possible reason for the rally was a left-over feel good effect off the AAPL news in combination with another drop in crude oil. Today’s 3% drop now brings [...]
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By Josh Hayes on January 4, 2007
What started out as a crazy morning, once again, for stocks, quickly turned into a day of steady advances. The treat of the day and the possible cause to this was another fall in crude oil prices. The fall today, after yesterday, brings the two day total to 8.9%. Besides that, however, there was no [...]
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By Josh Hayes on December 18, 2006
It was another merger filled Monday but this time the mergers didn’t help. Stocks started the morning very strong and then reversed with the Nasdaq and SP 600 leading to the downside. At the closing bell, when all was said and done, it was a pretty ugly day.
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By Josh Hayes on December 15, 2006
Stocks closed the week up for the third straight session, with the help of a kind inflation data. The CPI came in unchanged from a month ago and that helped lift stocks higher. But after stocks hit their highs of the day around 11am EST, they basically drifted lower for the rest of the session [...]
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