Stock Market update -Aug 9

 The SPX had a nice gap up and rally on Monday morning (a regular occurrence now), followed by more rallies the rest of the week. Seems like its headed back up to the all time high from last Feb (before the virus hit), in spite of the huge hit to the economy, GDP, and employment levels.





Gold & Silver rallied some more this week.
Bonds were flat. Oil was up a bit.

What was up this week:  AAPL, AMD, UPS, FDX
What was down this week: 

Covid cases continue to increase (now over 5 million) -the US death toll is now over 162,000. 



S&P 500 market crash recovery (chart...now trying to reach the all-time highs


High yield Corporate Bonds (HYG)  (2yr chart) -approaching all time highs 
Investment grade Corporate Bonds (LQD)  (2yr chart) -waaay beyond all time highs!



Market concerns:  Coronavirus... Unemployment? 
Pops:   
Drops:   

Over $25 Trillion in debt!  See Debt Clock on the left, or here... 


New all time highs:   AMD, FB, FAST, NVDA, TMUS, TTD, UNH, UPS,  W, Z,  and more...

Options watch:   S&P 500 Implied Volatility  (CBOE VIX) -continuing to pull back!
ETFs SPY, IWM, QQQ, GLD, GDX, USO, XOP, VXX, XLF, XLE, FXI, EEM EWZ, 

Stocks AAPL, AMD, BAC, BABA, DIS, FB, MU, NFLX, NVDA, TSLA...


Next week:     
MTWTF
EARNING:CGC, RCL, CSCO, AMAT
Events:





This week's charts:

UPS delivers!


$NYA -NYSE Composite  -still below the Jun highs
 (IWM)   Small-caps -ditto



Links...
10yr Interest Rates  -still veery low
ETFs - Ranked by  Volume
S&P 500 Sector performance -

Crude Oil  was up a bit, closing near 41.22
Gold was up, closing  around 2028 -now over 2000!!
The US Dollar was unchanged, closing near 93.41
The 30 year Bond was down a bit, closing near 181.60

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