Is the Utilities Sectors the Place to Hide? – XLU
Thursday was brutal for the bulls as the bears pushed the DOW some 266 points lower and the entire list of S&P 500 sector ETFs suffered at the hands of the bears.
Thursday was brutal for the bulls as the bears pushed the DOW some 266 points lower and the entire list of S&P 500 sector ETFs suffered at the hands of the bears.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT, quote) , the world’s largest retailer by revenue, plans to shut down another underperforming store-in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province-in late April, while a compensation dispute with employees from an inland store that closed in March remains unsolved.
The GBPUSD pair fell during the bulk of the session on Thursday, but bounced enough to form a little bit of a hammer.
AUDUSD made a strong rally yesterday thanks to upbeat jobs data, but it was unable to sustain its rally when Chinese CPI came in weaker than expected today.
AUDUSD remains in uptrend from 0.9205, and the rise extended to as high as 0.9439.
USDJPY remains in downtrend from 104.12, the rise from 101.55 is likely consolidation of the downtrend.
EURUSD recently broke above a falling trend line on its 1-hour time frame, indicating that the downtrend is already over.
Brent crude oil (BNO, quote) ticked up as tension in Ukraine grew. The commodity traded at $107.50 at 6:20 GMT after reports that pro-Russian groups had seized government buildings in several eastern Ukrainian cities.
EURUSD broke above the upper line of the price channel on 4-hour chart, suggesting that the downtrend from 1.3966 had completed at 1.3672 already.
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