Mixed Bag

Mixed Bag

Friends It was a mixed day for stocks with Nasdaq doing well while the Dow slumped at bit. Retailers were winners today with the likes of Walmart, Target, Costco, TJX, Home Depot and Best Buy all doing well. The industrial and material names that had been showing relative strength...

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Directionless

Directionless

Friends   We saw a bit of a tug of war between the bulls and the bears today as stocks drifted back and forth with no real commitment in either direction. Economic data is getting a little better, but market participants are reluctant to see that as anything other...

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Stocks Pause

Stocks Pause

Friends Stocks cooled off a little today, as concerns that the folks on the Hill are far apart on a second stimulus bill seemed to weigh on the markets. Big growth names Apple and Amazon fared well, but the stocks that had been favored in recent sessions saw some...

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Bulls Charge Back

Bulls Charge Back

Friends The bulls were back at it today attempting to push stocks to all-time highs. Can you imagine we are talking about stocks at new highs with the economic conditions that we are enduring? Nevertheless, stocks continue to gain strength and the broadening out of the advance is continuing....

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Rotation and Reversal

Rotation and Reversal

Friends The broadening out of the market advance was well in play for the third day in a row until the last hour of trading today. Stimulus talks bogging down on the Hill and an announcement a college football conference was postponing the football season seemed to take the...

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A Different Rally

A Different Rally

Friends   Ask and you just might receive. Yes, indeed, we got another day of the market rallying without the dominance of a handful of large cap growth stocks. Today, the industrials and economically sensitive names were the winners, as even oil and energy stocks participated in the rally....

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Stocks Grind Out A Good Week

Stocks Grind Out A Good Week

Friends Today’s jobs number was a little better than expected with more jobs being created than thought and the unemployment rate falling to 10.2%. Since this nightmare has begun we have lost 22 million jobs and have now recovered about 9 million of those jobs. Though still horrific, we’ll...

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Narrow Advance Continues

Narrow Advance Continues

Friends It was pretty much the same story again today. Apple leads the Nasdaq higher and the rest of the market watches from the sidelines. Money that is finding its way into stocks seems to be directed towards just a handful of names, which is great for those handful...

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Big Names Keep Rolling

Big Names Keep Rolling

Friends It was another big day for the Nasdaq led by Apple and Microsoft, but because both of those stocks are also part of the S&P 500 and the Dow,  those indices also posted nice gains for the day. We’ve seen this show for the last several months where...

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