My Gut Feeling for Today, April 18, 2013 ($$)
The markets came into Wednesday’s session poised to decline. However, ricin laced letters were received in Washington, bomb squads were dispatched in Washington as well and a courthouse was evacuated...
View ArticleMy Gut Feeling for Today, April 19, 2013 ($$)
I am travelling today but delayed my departure a few hours due to the goings on in Boston. Boston is under lockdown after a shooting which resulted in the death of an MIT security officer. Also dead is...
View ArticleMy Gut Feeling for Today, April 22, 2013 ($$)
The markets breathed a double sigh of relief on Friday. One was for Google’s (GOOG) spectacular earnings and another for the killing of the elder of the Boston bombers. The markets appear to be headed...
View ArticleMy Gut Feeling for Today, April 23, 2013 ($$)
While the opening move higher for the markets, specifically the S&P 500 (SPX), did not hold in the early part of the trading session, by the closing bell it proved resilient and closed with some...
View ArticleMy Gut Feeling for Today, April 30, 2013
The markets in what was an uncharacteristic Monday rose early and held those gains for the day. When the bell range, the S&P 500 (SPX) closed at an all-time high. Three-twenty-nine. I am not...
View ArticleMy Gut Feeling for Today, May 2, 2013
Yesterday was one of those days when the stock market was the dog and the bond market was the tail. Apple’s (AAPL) huge $17 billion bond sale on Monday, which was highly oversubscribed and successful...
View ArticleMy Gut Feeling for Today, May 3, 2013
Today the Bureau of Labor Statistics will reveal it much anticipated April jobs report. However, as we can already glean from the last two weeks’ weekly unemployment claims releases, that April data...
View ArticleMy Gut Feeling for Today, May 21, 2013
I have taken off two days for my civic duty (on jury duty), two days for faith (Shavuot) and two days for family (graduation at Boston Univ. Law School) and (Seton Hall Nursing School). My wife, a BU...
View ArticleMy Gut Feeling for Today, June 10, 2013
Goldilocks showed up at the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday and the three Bears ran for the woods after the May labor report was just right. This suggests, as was my gut feeling recently, that the...
View ArticleWeekly Sector Update – SOXX ($)
The top dog this week is SOXX (unfortunately, not the White Sox!) SOXX is iShares PHLX Semiconductor ETF, which means it holds US semiconductor stocks (many that you would recognize). It has surpassed...
View ArticleWeekly Sector Update – IYZ ($)
IYZ is the iShares U.S. Telecom ETF. IYZ jumped up 25 points to land at the top of the list. It is still in the penalty box but we are optimistic. Everything is faring better today, as we start the new...
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