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?

Labor Force Participation Rate (10 year chart)

Fear & Greed Index

ETFs - Ranked by YTD Percent Change

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:

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