Welcome to Tuesday’s Morning Coffee Break – History repeated itself as the Dow Jones dropped for the 15th Monday out of 16th weeks. U.S. futures are suggesting positive opening in early electronic trading with the Dow Jones fair value at 18.08, S&P 500 fair value 1.66 and the NASDAQ’s fair value coming in at 4.12.
Welcome to today’s Morning Coffee Break –despite losses last week U.S. markets are firmly in the green as market participants head into the last week of September and the final week of the 3rd quarter. Markets are in the green as well for the 3rd quarter putting markets on target to be the best year since 2009.
Welcome to today’s Morning Coffee Break – hold on tight as today is “quadruple witching”. For those unsure of what quarterly “quadruple witching” is, it’s a period of time simultaneous expiration of various options and futures contracts that happens once each quarter. Doing a little digging we found that the last 8 times this has occurred in September, the Dow Jones has traded higher. The Dow Jones also has been
Welcome to today’s Morning Coffee Break – traders had a case of Deja vu yesterday as the U.S. markets traded similar to last week ahead of the European Central Bank (ECB) and U.S Federal Reserve meetings. U.S. futures are indicating a positive opening today with the Dow Jones fair value of 30.36, S&P 500 fair value of 2.33 and the NASDAQ’s fair value currently at 5.37.
Welcome to today’s Morning Coffee Break – U.S futures are indicating a lower open with fair value for the Dow Jones at -23.10, S&P 500 at -2.24 and the NASDAQ fair value at -5.84. Market participants will get to hear from two Federal Reserve officials throughout the day today.
Welcome to today’s Morning Coffee Break – On the first day of trading this week traders are waking up to lower futures in the U.S. stock indexes after last week’s rally sparked by the Federal Reserve’s aggressive new round of quantitative (QE3) easing last week Thursday.
Welcome to today’s Morning Coffee Break – The Federal Reserve decisively stepped off the sidelines with a stronger than expected new round of unlimited quantitative easing (QE3) sending U.S. markets rallying. Market participants are clearly satisfied with the FMOC’s move as U.S. futures are indicating an extension of yesterday’s rally.
This stock market has problems. Problems indeed! With what appeared to be an oversold bounce this morning was shattered on more negative news from the ECB cutting funding to certain Greece’s banks not to mention the FOMC statement about highlighting several members saw the need for additional stimulus causing the bulls packing once again.
