June 9, 2011
Today the S&P 500 snapped its six-day losing streak with a 0.74% gain. The correction is now 5.47% below the interim high of April 29. The index is 90.5% above the March 2009 closing low but 17.6% below the nominal all-time high of Oc…
June 9, 2011
Today the S&P 500 snapped its six-day losing streak with a 0.74% gain. The correction is now 5.47% below the interim high of April 29. The index is 90.5% above the March 2009 closing low but 17.6% below the nominal all-time high of Oc…
June 8, 2011
The S&P 500 closed the day down 0.42%, the sixth consecutive finish in the red. According to my quick visual scan, this is the first string of six losses since before the market bottom in March 2009. The correction is now 6.16% below …
June 6, 2011
The S&P 500 opened the week with a dramatic loss of 1.08%, which takes the correction to 5.68% below the interim high of April 29. The index is 92.2% above the March 2009 closing low but 16.9% below the nominal all-time high of Octobe…
June 2, 2011
The S&P 500 closed the day down a fractional 0.12% after recovering from a mid-day slump of 0.68%. The index is 94.1% above the March 2009 closing low but 16.1% below the nominal all-time high of October 2007. Below are two charts of …
May 31, 2011
The S&P 500 closed up 1.06% for the day but down 1.35% for the month. The index is 98.8% above the March 2009 closing low but 14.1% below the nominal all-time high of October 2007. Below are two charts of the index — with and wi…
May 27, 2011
The S&P 500 closed up 0.41% for the day, down 0.16% for the week, but just above the 50-day moving average. The index is 96.8% above the March 2009 closing low but 15.0% below the nominal all-time high of October 2007. Below are two c…
May 25, 2011
The S&P 500 closed the day with a modest gain of 0.32%, which puts it 3.16% off the interim high of April 29th, but it’s up exactly 5.0% for the year. The index is 95.2% above the March 2009 closing low but 15.6% below the nominal all…
May 23, 2011
The S&P 500 closed the day down 1.19%, which takes it below the 50-day moving average. The index is 94.7% above the March 9 2009 closing low but 15.8% below the nominal all-time high of October 2007. Below are two charts of the index …
May 23, 2011
The S&P 500 closed the day down 1.19%, which takes it below the 50-day moving average. The index is 94.7% above the March 9 2009 closing low but 15.8% below the nominal all-time high of October 2007. Below are two charts of the index …
May 22, 2011
With the exception of the FTSE 100, with its modest 0.38% gain for week, all of the major world markets in this series lost ground. The DAX was finished in last place, down 1.84%, with the BSE SENSEX second-to-last with a 1.11% loss. Th…