State of the Stock Market Analysis for the Week Ending October 4th, 2014 (The Bullish Vibe Is Back 10-04-14) Bulls were heading into the weekend needing a win, and that was exactly what happened Friday, as the employment report was impressive enough to get the bull market off the floor and take it higher. The 200-plus-point rally…
DetailsState of the Stock Market Analysis for the Week Ending September 28th, 2014 (The Current Stock Market is Flat and Mixed 9-28-14) Bulls were looking for a bounce following Thursday’s big draw down, and that is exactly what we saw to close out the week on a positive note. Friday was a big relief for…
DetailsState of the Stock Market Analysis for the Week Ending September 20th, 2014 (The Current Stock Market is Flat and Mixed 9-20-14) Flat and mixed has been the theme for September, and that was exactly how the stock market closed out the week. The Dow and the S&P 500 did touch new highs, and the…
DetailsState of the Stock Market Analysis for the Week Ending September 13th, 2014 (Bulls Hoped For Late Session Bounce 9-13-14) Bulls were hoping for a late-session bounce on Friday that might have at least pushed the S&P 500 back above 2,000 or prevented the Dow from closing below 17,000, but that sort of performance was…
DetailsState of the Stock Market Analysis for the Week Ending September 6th, 2014 (Bulls Get a Win This Week 9-6-14) Bulls were looking for a win on Friday to close out the week, and that was exactly what we saw. Having the S&P 500 close out the first trading week of September at an all-time…
DetailsState of the Stock Market Analysis for the Week Ending August 30th, 2014 (Janet Yellen Surprises None in Jackson Hole 8-30-14) Bulls had wanted to head into Labor Day weekend with the S&P 500 at a record high, and while we did not top Tuesday’s intraday high of 2,005, we did see a rally in…
DetailsState of the Stock Market Analysis for the Week Ending August 16th, 2014 (Ukraine and Russia Powered Market’s Movement 8-16-14) News of the attack by Ukraine on Russian military vehicles powered the market’s movement today, but after an early selloff, the stock market bounced back enough to finish flat and mixed for the day. It…
DetailsState of the Stock Market Analysis for the Week Ending August 9th, 2014 (Up-down-up-down-up Week for Stocks 8-9-14) It was a rough week for the stock market as we saw an “up-down-up-down-up” week. Every day actually alternated in that exact sequence, but when the closing bell rang following Friday’s strong rally, all three of the…
DetailsState of the Stock Market Analysis for the Week Ending August 2nd, 2014 (Can We Just Forget This Week in the Stock Market? 8-2-14) Can We Just Forget This Week in the Stock Market? It was one of those weeks that the bulls would like to forget. Nothing seemed to play out well, and the…
DetailsState of the Stock Market Analysis for the Week Ending July 26th, 2014 (Amazon (AMZN) and Visa (V) Set Negative Tone 7-26-14) Amazon (AMZN) and Visa (V) set a negative tone on Friday, as both announced earnings that fell short of analysts’ expectations. Visa is a Dow component, and that weighed heavily on the Dow. To…
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