Good morning. Happy Thursday. The Asian/Pacific markets closed mixed. Hong Kong rallied another 2.7%; India and Japan also did well. China dropped 0.9%. Europe is currently mostly up. Switzerland is up 1.3%; France is up 1.1%; London, Italy, Spain and Amsterdam are up more than 0.7%. Russia is down 1.5%. Futures here in the States […]
Before the Open (Apr 8)
Good morning. Happy Wednesday. The Asian/Pacific markets closed with a lean to the upside. Hong Kong rallied 3.8%, followed by China, Japan, Australia, India and South Korea, which each moved up 0.6-0.8%. Taiwan and Indonesia dropped. Europe is currently mixed. Belgium is up 1.1%, followed by London and Austria. Russia is down 1.1%, followed by […]
Before the Open (Apr 7)
Good morning. Happy Tuesday. The Asian/Pacific markets closed up across-the-board. China rallied 2.5% and Japan moved up 1.3%. Indonesia and Malaysia also did well. Europe is currently posting big gains. Amsterdam and Norway are up more than 2%; Spain, Italy, Austria, Stockholm, Switzerland, Germany, France and London are each up more than 1%. Futures here […]
Before the Open (Apr 6)
Good morning. Happy Monday. Hope you had a good weekend. The Asian/Pacific markets closed mostly up (although several markets were closed). India, Indonesia and Malaysia did well. Europe was closed. Russia finished with a small gain. Futures here in the States point toward a relatively big gap down for the cash market.
S&P Select – Week in Review
Per the nine S&P Select groups, this is how the market did last week.
Before the Open (Apr 3)
Good morning. Happy Friday. The market is closed today, but the employment numbers were released. For the sake of completeness (in case we want to look back in the future to see what the numbers were) here they are.
Before the Open (Apr 2)
Good morning. Happy Thursday. Happy early Easter and Passover. The market is closed tomorrow, so today is the last trading day of the week. The Asian/Pacific markets closed mostly up. Japan and Taiwan rallied better than 1%; Australia and Hong Kong also did well. Europe is currently mixed, but movement is small. Only Greece (down […]
Before the Open (Apr 1)
Good morning. Happy Wednesday. The Asian/Pacific markets closed with a lean to the downside. Japan and Indonesia fell 0.9%, Taiwan dropped 0.8% and South Korea lost 0.6%. China rallied 1.7%, followed by India (up 1.1%) and Hong Kong (up 0.7%). Europe is currently mostly up. France, Austria, Russia and Italy are up more than 1%, […]
Before the Open (Mar 31)
Good morning. Happy Tuesday. The Asian/Pacific markets closed with a lean to the upside. Indonesia rallied 1.5%, followed by Australia (up 0.8%), Taiwan (up 0.7%) and Korea and Malaysia (up 0.5%). Japan and China each dropped 1%. Europe is currently mostly down. London is down 1.3%, followed by Amsterdam (down 0.9%), Germany (down 0.8%) and […]
Before the Open (Mar 30)
Good morning. Happy Monday. Hope you had a nice weekend. The Asian/Pacific markets closes mostly up. China rallied 2.6%, followed by India (up 1.9%) and Hong Kong (up 1.5%). Australia dropped 1.2%, and New Zealand fell 0.6%. Europe is currently mostly up. Italy, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Amsterdam, Stockholm and Russia are all up more than […]