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