Stock Market update -Feb 22nd

The market continued to move higher this week, making new all time highs again (except for the NASDAQ). Bonds dropped, and Gold and Oil dropped as well. The market has broken out of its recent range, and now looks poised to continue higher.

New all time highs:    AAPL, AET, BA, DIS, DLTR, INTU, JWN, MA, LOW, MPC, MDT, MMM, PETM, V, and more..
All time lows:   FUEL
Pops:      Drops:   

AAPL and NFLX continued to rally.

Next week:  Economic reports,   Fed meeting

Earnings:      Retailers -M, TGT, HD, etc

This week's charts:

S&P 500 - New all time high
10yr Interest Rates -very low!
Labor Force Participation Rate (10 year chart)

Commodities/Futures (charts):
Crude Oil dropped, closing near $50.81

Natural Gas was up a bit, closing at $2.95
Gold was down, closing near $1205

The 30 year Bond was down again, closing near 144

The US Dollar was mostly unchanged, closing at 94.34

NEWS:

Nasdaq 5,000! Will this time be different?
Earnings Next Week – 2/23 – 2/27
Wal-Mart will give half-million employees pay raises
Europe seen higher after Greek debt deal

Stock Market update -Feb 15th

We got a nice rally this week, sending some of the indexes to new all time highs. Bonds continued to drop, while the Dollar is still in a sideways pattern. This market could continue to surprise to the up-side, though it's a little extended extended from this recent rally.

Greece and other International issues continue to linger in the background.

New all time highs:    BA, CMCSA, DIS, HON, HD, LOW, KR, MPC, SBUX, UNP, UTX, V
All time lows:   
Pops:   AKAM, EXPE, KING    Drops:   AOL, PIR BIDU ZNGA

AXP continued to slide this week, AAPL continued to rally.

Next week:  Economic reports,   

Earnings:      WMT, 

This week's charts:

S&P 500 -breakout? New all time high
10yr Interest Rates -very low!
Labor Force Participation Rate (10 year chart)

Commodities/Futures (charts):
Crude Oil was mostly unchanged, closing near $52.78

Natural Gas was up, closing at $2.80
Gold was down, closing near $1227

The 30 year Bond was down again, closing near 145.90

The US Dollar was mostly down a bit, closing at 94.28

NEWS:

Stocks close up on oil; S&P at record, Dow above 18,000
7 companies getting hammered by rising dollar
Gold tarnished: Demand sinks to five-year low

Stock Market Update -Feb 8th

Nice rebound in the equity markets this week! Also in Crude Oil. The casualties were Gold and Bonds. The monthly Jobs report came in near expectations. And on the International front, problems linger in the eurozone.

New all time highs:    ADP, BA, BIIB, CCI, DIS, DLPH, EL, HD, KR, LOW, LNKD, UTX, V
All time lows:   

Earnings Pops:   ,DIS, LNKD, TWTR,    Earnings Drops:   GPRO, GMCR, QCOM, P

ODP and SPLS popped on a buyout announcement

Radio Shack filed for bankruptcy

Next week:  Economic reports,   

Earnings:      

Mon:  ,

Tue:   CVS,  KO, REGN

Wed:  BIDU, CSCO, WFM, PEP, TSLA

Thu:  KRFT

Fri:   

This week's charts:

S&P 500 -TOPPING?
10yr Interest Rates -very low!
Labor Force Participation Rate (10 year chart)

Commodities/Futures (charts):
Crude Oil was up again, closing near $52.83

Natural Gas was mostly unchanged, closing at $2.65
Gold was down, closing near $1237 

The 30 year Bond was down, closing near 147.68 -finally dropped!

The US Dollar was mostly unchanged, closing at 94.82 

NEWS:

Stocks close down, but post strong weekly gains

Keep your eyes on these hot stocks next week (earnings)

Euro slide could take it to parity with dollar

GNC, Target, Wal-Mart, Walgreens accused of selling adulterated ‘herbals’