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By Josh Hayes on April 12, 2007
Stocks started the day weak on the back of data from the NAR announcing that they expected existing home sales to fall in 2007-the first drop in 38 yrs-and also see lower existing and new home sales in the short term. That combined with higher gas prices weighed on stocks early. But once again the [...]
Posted in default category | Tagged 2pm, closed end funds, djia, gas prices, HIG, lows, meat products, meeting minutes, nar, Nasdaq, NYSE, sp 500, stagflation, wishful thinking |
By Josh Hayes on April 11, 2007
Stocks performed the same way as they have been recently, with the markets gapping up, selling off, and then finding dip-buyers to help bring them off their lows and sending them near their highs by the close. All of this happened despite a very healthy amount of bad news from the housing and mortgage industry. [...]
Posted in default category | Tagged bad news, djia, lows, mortgage industry, Nasdaq, NYSE, oil gas, sarcasm, services group, sp 500 |
By Josh Hayes on April 10, 2007
Stock investors returned from a long three-day Easter weekend to a very inactive market. Even though trading was pretty wild, choppy and volatile today, the market still traded in a very narrow range and basically did not move from Thursday’s close.
Posted in default category | Tagged big boys, bni, djia, easter weekend, economist, final hour, moving average, NYSE, private equity, s market, sp 500, stock investors, unemployment rate, warren buffet |
By Josh Hayes on April 7, 2007
Stocks started the morning off with a gap lower on the back of a currency tightening measures in China. But after the gap lower, stocks steadily climbed higher on very quiet trade for the rest of the day. That reversal off the gap lower was caused by the Labor Department announcing that jobless claims this [...]
Posted in default category | Tagged 1q, closing bell, dcx, djia, jobless claims, kirk kerkorian, labor department, merger and acquisition, software ag, sp 500, webm, year 1 |
By Josh Hayes on April 6, 2007
Stocks started the morning off with a gap lower on the back of a currency tightening measures in China. But after the gap lower, stocks steadily climbed higher on very quiet trade for the rest of the day. That reversal off the gap lower was caused by the Labor Department announcing that jobless claims this [...]
Posted in default category | Tagged 1q, closing bell, dcx, djia, jobless claims, kirk kerkorian, labor department, merger and acquisition, software ag, sp 500, webm, year 1 |
By Josh Hayes on April 5, 2007
Stocks went back to their old ways of not doing much intraday but boring us to death, after a few important economic numbers hit the wires. The ISM service index fell to 52.4 in March from 54.3 in February. Expectations were for 54.7, so obviously this was not good news. The prices paid index rose [...]
Posted in default category | Tagged census bureau, djia, industry group, institutional investors, intraday, lows, nassy, NYSE, relative strength, sp 500 |
By Josh Hayes on April 3, 2007
Possible good news out of Iran over the release of the 15 hostages, oil prices falling 2% to $64.64 as the result of the possible release, positive foreign market gains in Europe and Asia, and positive news from the housing market was just what the market needed, as stocks gapped higher, held the gains, and [...]
Posted in default category | Tagged accumulation distribution, crowd, divergence, djia, downside, hod, hostages, housing market, indexes, Nasdaq, NYSE, oil prices, sp 500 |
By Josh Hayes on April 3, 2007
It was a busy day of economic data and merger & acquisition news, kicking off a week of what is going to be a economic data-filled short week. Stocks got off to a good start, gapping higher, with M & A news all over the headlines. FDC received a bid from Kohlber Karvis Roberts, GISX [...]
Posted in default category | Tagged busy day, djia, economic data, january 1st, sam zell, sp 500, stagflation, trb, uptick, xrx |
By Josh Hayes on April 1, 2007
Another wild-yet-boring intraday session came to an end, with stocks going nowhere. The lack of action today is a bit of a surprise, considering all the news items we had to digest. First, we got off to a positive start and continued higher early on, on the back of a bunch of macro news. The [...]
Posted in default category | Tagged bush administration, closing bell, comfort zone, commerce department, core inflation, djia, economic sanction, economic sanctions, NYSE, personal consumption, personal income, purchasing managers index, sp 500 |
By Josh Hayes on April 1, 2007
Another wild-yet-boring intraday session came to an end, with stocks going nowhere. The lack of action today is a bit of a surprise, considering all the news items we had to digest. First, we got off to a positive start and continued higher early on, on the back of a bunch of macro news. The [...]
Posted in default category | Tagged bush administration, closing bell, comfort zone, commerce department, core inflation, djia, economic sanction, economic sanctions, NYSE, personal consumption, personal income, purchasing managers index, sp 500 |
