Stock Market update

Apple Slides on Speculation of Lower iPhone 7 Sales Outside U.S.
Fitch warns bad debts in China are ten times official claims, state rescue urgent

Commodities/Futures (charts):

Natural Gas was unchanged, closing near 2.96

Crude Oil was up, closing near 44.59

Gold was up, closing near 1341

The 30 year Bond rallied, closing near 167.72

The US Dollar was down, closing near 95.41

NEWS:

Stock Market update -Sep 18th

Stocks tried to recover from the pre-911 sell-off, but some indexes did, and some didn't. The NASDAQ fully recovered mainly because of the huge rally in AAPL, while the S&P500 and DOW remained at the low. Next week's big potential market moving event will be the Fed announcements on Wednesday, regarding an Interest rate hike, as well as the Bank of Japan's announcement.

This week AAPL rallied... as did INTC
DB dropped, while WFC continued it slide. ORCL dropped on earnings

New all time highs: DKS, GIMO,
All time lows:
Mergers/Deals:

Options watch:   Implied Volatility now rising... Link to high IVR stocks
High volume: SPY, IWM, QQQ, AAPL, FB, BAC, HYG, GLD, GDX, USO, VXX, XLF, FXI, EEM EWZ, XOP

Next week: Economic reports, *** Fed Interest Rate decision, also Bank of Japan

Earnings: AZO, ADBE, FDX, GIS,

This week's charts:

NASDAQ -16 years to get back to even!

The S&P 500 got there a long time ago...

NYSE still struggling to get to the 2015 highs

Links...

S&P 500 - where next?

CBOE VIX -rising

10yr Interest Rates -rising?

If you're watching the Fed, you better pay attention to this instead
Apple shares just did something they haven’t done since 2009
Elizabeth Warren: 'There's a serious problem with senior management at Wells Fargo'
On this day 8 years ago, Lehman Brothers collapsed: Have we learned anything?

Commodities/Futures (charts):

Natural Gas was up, closing near 2.96

Crude Oil dropped, closing near 43.19

Gold dropped, closing near 1313

The 30 year Bond dropped, closing near 165.68

The US Dollar was up a bit, closing near 96.05

NEWS:

Stock Market update -Sep 11th

Wow! The market sold off on Friday... after two months of no movement, and with no warning.

Some say it was the Fed, some say it was Draghi, some say it was ahead of the 911 weekend, but no one really knows -it just happened, so just trade it!

This week saw Stocks drop, and Bonds drop as well. We also saw AAPL drop after the new iPhone announcement. We'll see if we get a bounce next week ahead of Friday's Quarterly Options expirations.

APA popped

New all time highs: DLTH
All time lows: SEAS
Mergers/Deals: Dell/EMC finalized

Options watch: Implied Volatility still at extreme lows... Link to high IVR stocks
High volume: SPY, IWM, QQQ, AAPL, FB, BAC, HYG, GLD, GDX, USO, VXX, XLF, FXI, EEM EWZ, XOP

Next week: Economic reports, Options Expiration -Triple witch... SPY dividend

Earnings:

This week's charts:

ITT Technical Institutes shut down after 50 years in operation

NASDAQ -16 years to get back to even!

The S&P 500 got there a long time ago...

NYSE still struggling to get to the 2015 highs

Links...

S&P 500 - dropped on Friday!

CBOE VIX -rising

10yr Interest Rates -rising?

Stocks sell off, all 3 major indexes post worst day since June 24...
Summer's over? Dow plunges almost 400 points
MasterCard slapped with $18.6 billion lawsuit over fees
Wells Fargo fined $185M for fake accounts; 5300 were fired
Apple pumps brakes on self-driving car strategy, laying off dozens NYT
US agency: Samsung Galaxy Note 7 too dangerous to use

Commodities/Futures (charts):

Natural Gas was unchanged, closing near 2.79

Crude Oil was up, closing near 45.71

Gold was up a bit, closing near 1331

The 30 year Bond stayed the same, closing near 166.65

The US Dollar was down a bit, closing near 95.33

NEWS:

Stock Market update -Sep 4th

The market was mostly unchanged for the week and for the month! We continue in a sideways, low volatility pattern in the S&P 500. Maybe we'll see some more movement in September. Bonds were down a bit, while Gold and Oil tried to recover.

Still looking for SPX to hit 2200, and for the IWM to finally get to an all time high, like the rest of the indexes (below) -the NYA too. The market is closed on Monday.

ANF, CRM, LULU dropped on earnings...

New all time highs: AMZN, ATVI, EBAY, EA, CHTR, TSN, UL
All time lows:
Mergers/Deals:

Options watch:   Implied Volatility still at extreme lows... Link to high IVR stocks
High volume: SPY, IWM, QQQ, AAPL, FB, BAC, HYG, GLD, GDX, USO, VXX, XLF, FXI, EEM EWZ, XOP

Next week: Economic reports,

Earnings: HPE, MRVL

This week's charts:

Utilities lose, Financials win!

Semiconductors win too...

NASDAQ -16 years to get back to even!

The S&P 500 got there a long time ago...

NYSE still struggling to get to the 2015 highs

Links...

S&P 500 - holding near all time highs!

CBOE VIX -still low

10yr Interest Rates -rising?