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…
May 9, 2016: Markets opened mixed on Monday as traders tried to judge the impact of the massive wildfire that has struck the Canadian oil sands region and the city of Fort…
May 5, 2016: Markets opened higher on Thursday primarily on strengthening crude oil prices despite a move higher by the dollar. Higher job cuts reported by Challenger combined with a rise in…
May 4, 2016: Markets opened lower again on Wednesday after a blizzard of lackluster economic data from all over the globe. Eurozone PMI services index readings were lower than expected and equity…
Old companies have led the Dow Jones Industrial Average higher in 2016, including Caterpillar, Exxon Mobil and Chevron.
April 27, 2016: Markets opened lower Wednesday and traded lower until the FOMC announcement in the mid-afternoon. The delay on raising rates and at least some observations that a June hike may…
Analysts are seeing signs that Caterpillar is beginning to improve, albeit slowly, and its valuations remain attractive.
Chris Lange 
