Stock Market update -Aug 7th

The market rallied to a new all time high on a good Jobs number on Friday, with 255,000 new jobs added (S&P 500). Financials rallied too, with the increased expectation for a rate hike. Implied Volatility is at a very low level, and Bollinger Bands suggest an upcoming breakout move -we'll only know the direction after it happens though! But this rally is long in the tooth... Bonds and Gold dropped.

Market worries... Japan, GB/Brexit, Italian banks, DB, Europe, Turkey...


BMY dropped, while MRK popped on news.
PCLN popped on earnings, closing at 1414 on Friday!
FEYE, TRIP dropped on earnings.

New all time highs:  AVGO, BLL, HPE, MNST, NVDA, TTWO, 
All time lows:  
Mergers/Deals:  

Options watch:   Implied Volatility at extreme lows... except for stocks reporting earnings!
High IVR link  Also companies reporting earnings 
High volume:   SPY, IWM, QQQ, AAPL, FB, BAC, HYG, GLD, GDX, USO, VXX, XLF, FXI, EEM EWZ, XOP

Next week:  Economic reports,   More earnings, 
Earnings:      DIS


This week's charts:


IWM is the star performer since the Feb lows...
-even tho its not yet back to all time highs.


Links...
S&P 500 - new all time high!
Gold dropped, closing near 1339
The 30 year Bond dropped, closing near 171.25
The US Dollar was up, closing near 96.23

NEWS:



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