August 21, 2008 – 5:52 pm
from My Happy Trading.com
Commodities and related sectors continued to bounce higher today. Crude closed above $120/barrel and gold traded nearly $840/ounce! Energy stocks added to their gains: HES +4.89%; CLR +5.4%; HK +5.94%. Gold and silver miners jumped: AEM +6.93%; ABX +6.76%; PAAS +6.26%. Coal stocks bounced for the 3rd-straight day: CNX +4.14%; ACI +8.06%; MEE […]
Following yesterday’s disappointing news from RIMM and ORCL, the market gapped lower at the open. Oil jumped over $140/barrel and added more pressure on the market. The market accelerated lower into the close, with techs leading the way.
RIMM ended down more than 13%. GOOG lost $22.18, or 4.03% while BIDU gave up […]
The GDP came in at 0.6, which matched the estimates. The market futures initially jumped when the GDP report came out, but, MER and UBS received lowered earnings outlook and soon started to put pressure on the financial sector. This weekend, in my Market Forecast, I said,
“The market has been under pressure for […]
February 21, 2008 – 6:27 pm
This market just cannot make up its mind. It has been “seesawing” back and forth. For the past 5 trading sessions, it has been closing in the opposite direction as it has opened. When the market opened up, it closed down; when the market opened down, it closed up!
Today, the market opened […]
January 2, 2008 – 6:53 pm
The market opened higher, but, quickly faded into the red. The market tried to bounce in the early afternoon, but, slid back some to the close. The Dow lost 220.86 points; SPX gave up 21.20 points; Nasdaq stumbled 42.65 points.
The big news today were, of course, record-high oil and gold! Oil prices […]
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