A Weak Close Blemishes A Good Day

As the 3pm hour began it appeared this market was ready to rocket higher.  Continuing with the trend sellers were able to push the market off their highs of the session.  The market did not start of strong with weak economic data hitting the wires.  However, buyers...

Stocks Rebound in Light Turnover; Jobs Data Eyed

For the most part, economic data has not been stellar.  Those who are bearish on this economy continue to point out how we are overvalued on every metric.  Unfortunately for those who continue to fight this market have been bitten pretty hard.  We had a decent rebound...

Stocks End Mixed; Russell 2000 Snaps Back

After a bout of selling this morning the stock market was able to rebound.  During the morning’s selling the VIX really did not jump as if there was a ton of fear in the market.  We do have a jobs report tomorrow, but was it anticipation of Yom Kippur ushering in...

Stocks Fall Hard in Heavy Turnover

Yesterday’s gains were quickly erased today by heavy volume selling. There was not much to cheer about except GPRO continuing to add to its gains. Sellers were in complete control of the market for much of the day. Buyers were simply absent and were not around to...

S&P 500 Sets Another All-Time High

It was a day of new highs as the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial average hit new all-time highs.  The NASDAQ continues to hit multi-year highs.  Russell 2000 remains weak and is not near its all-time high.  Big Cap stocks have been leading this market higher and...