July 1, 2016: Markets opened higher down slightly Friday before climbing to mid-morning highs only to trail lower for much of the day, before heading higher about an hour before the closing…
June 24, 2016: Markets opened Friday following the surprise U.K. decision to leave the European Union. The Brexit vote dominated the day’s currency, energy, commodities, and equity markets as traders and investors…
As with commodity markets in energy and basic materials, the U.K. vote to abandon the European Union is taking a toll on agricultural commodities markets Friday morning. So far, at least, ag…
June 10, 2016: Markets opened lower again Friday as a stronger dollar weighed on energy prices and lower bond yields were more the focus of traders’ attention. Only the telecom sector traded…
June 9, 2016: Markets opened lower Thursday as a confluence of factors gave traders and investors the jitters. Korea’s central bank cut its policy rate, oil gave back some of its recent…
June 8, 2016: Markets opened higher for a third straight day Wednesday boosted by rising crude oil prices and a falling dollar. An premarket jump in shares of LendingClub helped out until…
June 6, 2016: Markets opened higher Monday on rising crude oil prices and expectations for Fed chairwoman Janet Yellen’s noon speech. Energy led the sectors all day, with basic materials coming second.…
June 2, 2016: Markets opened lower Thursday while investors waited to hear results from the OPEC meeting in Vienna. Alas, no change to the current policy sending oil prices lower for a…
Stocks were indicated higher on Thursday, after gains on Tuesday and Wednesday were handy. Oil also crossed back above the $50 barrier again for the first time since October 2015. The notion…
May 25, 2016: Markets opened higher again Wednesday on news that eurozone ministers have agreed to release the next tranche of bailout money to Greece. The dollar weakened and crude oil prices…
Should investors be concerned that five of the Dow Jones Industrial Average are trading above their fair value targets?
May 23, 2016: Markets opened essentially flat Monday following some weakness overseas on economic data from Japan and the eurozone. Bayer’s $62 billion offer for Monsanto boosted U.S. equities a bit out…
May 19, 2016: Markets opened lower Thursday for the third straight session. A stronger dollar followed the strong FOMC signal of an interest rate hike coming in June. Industrials were the hardest…
May 13, 2016: Markets opened slightly lower Friday as the dollar strengthened and oil prices dipped. By late afternoon every sector traded in the red for the day with financials, industrials, and…
May 10, 2016: Markets opened higher on Tuesday on chatter that Japan may intervene in the foreign exchange markets if the yen continues to slide. But oil prices again appeared to dominate…
