EOT Update
EOT position update July 16, 2014
July 16, 2014 Market Snapshot The S&P 500 is back on the upswing this week. The large cap index is up 7.8% this year and just below its all-time high of 1,985. And the blue chip stocks are performing even better this week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed to a new all-time high on […]
EOT position update July 2, 2014
July 2, 2014 Market Snapshot Happy Fourth of July. I hope you all get to enjoy a fantastic Independence Day celebration. We have plenty of economic data to digest this week as we move through the holiday shortened week. Not surprisingly, the data we’ve received this week shows that US economic growth is sluggish. That’s […]
EOT position update June 25, 2014
June 25, 2014 Market Snapshot The S&P 500 climbed to an all-time high of 1,968 yesterday before a 20 point selloff in afternoon trading dropped the large cap index 1% below the day’s high. The funny thing about the 1% drop is it was considered a volatile day for the markets… at least compared to […]
EOT position update June 18, 2014
June 18, 2014 Market Snapshot June has been an interesting month for the markets. The month began with a sense of calm and quiet optimism. Stocks were on the upswing. The S&P 500 hit a new all-time high of 1,955 on June 9th. Investor sentiment was becoming more bullish. The AAII Investor Sentiment Survey showed […]
EOT position update June 11, 2014
June 11, 2014 Market Snapshot If you were expecting a quiet summer for stocks… you’ve been disappointed by the market’s recent performance. The ‘Sell in May and go away’ crowd is missing out on a whopper of a rally over the last month. Over the last month, the S&P 500 is up 4.3% and recently […]
EOT position update May 28, 2014
May 28, 2014 Market Snapshot I hope everyone enjoyed their Memorial Day holiday. The unofficial start to summer has been accompanied by the typical slowdown on Wall Street. And the bears have been out in full force with their warnings for the demise of financial markets. The main thing they’ve been pointing to is the […]
EOT position update May 21, 2014
May 21, 2014 Market Snapshot It’s been a quiet week on Wall Street with little in the way of economic news and quarterly earnings season winding down. The Q1 earnings season was a non-event. Earnings for the companies in the S&P 500 are up around 1.3% and revenues are up around 0.9% over the last […]
EOT position update May 14, 2014
May 14, 2014 Market Snapshot Large cap US stocks have regained some of their bullish momentum following the dramatic selloff in momentum growth stocks over the last few months. The S&P 500 hit a new all-time high of 1,902 yesterday. It was the first time the index has crossed the 1.900 point threshold. Despite the […]
EOT position update May 7, 2014
May 7, 2014 Market Snapshot The S&P 500 hasn’t done much lately. The large cap index is sitting about 1% below the all-time high. And over the last week, it has traded in a tight 32 point range. Underneath the surface, we continue to see individual sectors outperform or underperform the large cap index. The […]
EOT position update April 30, 2014
April 30, 2014 Market Snapshot Over the last week, the S&P 500 has bounced back near its all time high. It’s currently less than 1% below the all time high of 1,897. But the bears are taking aim at stocks. And they have plenty of ammunition to fire… At the top of the list is […]
