Stock Market Blog -Apr 26th

Nice week for the NASDAQ, finally clawing its way back to the year 2000 level. We also saw big moves in a number of stocks after reporting earnings (AMZN, DNKN, GOOGL, MSFT, SBUX, etc).

Next Monday we get AAPL earnings. If the S&P continues to rally, we could see a nice breakout to higher levels. Gold fell back below 1200 again, while Oil continued to climb. The Fed meeting on Wednesday could affect markets this week too.

Market correlations seem to be completely out of whack...
The Nasdaq is finally back to the level it was 15 years ago!

New all time highs:    AMZN, DTV, DNKN, SBUX, 
All time lows:   
Pops  AMZN, DNKN, DTV, FTNT, GOOGL, MSFT, SBUX, YUM     Drops:     CMG, TXN, 
Mergers/Deals:  

Next week:  Economic reports,   More earnings reports!  Fed meeting...

Earnings:     

M:  AAPL, GLW, GPRO, MRK, PFE

T:   BP, BMY, BSX, F, TWTR, UPS 

W:  BIDU , HUM, KO, MA

T:   CELG, COP, GILD, LNKD , V, XOM

F:   CVX

This week's charts:

S&P 500 -more earnings next week...
10yr Interest Rates -remaining low?
Labor Force Participation Rate (10 year chart)

Commodities/Futures (charts):

Natural Gas was unchanged, closing at $2.53

Crude Oil was up a bit, closing near $57.42

Gold was down again, closing near $1179 -struggling to stay above $1200

The 30 year Bond was down, closing near 162.81

The US Dollar was down a bit, closing at 97.10 -heading back down?

NEWS:

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