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Morning Coffee Break – Tuesday April 2 April what is thought of being a strong month historically began the month and second quarter at a slow snail pace. The Dow and the bulls have look to April as the best month of the year as far back as 1950 with an average 2.7% gain for the month.

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Morning Coffee Break – Monday April 1 In today’s Morning Coffee Break we find as traders come to their trading systems after a 3 day weekend and the start of the second quarter have several milestones to build on from record closes on the Dow and S&P 500. 

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Morning Coffee Break – Wednesday March 27 Today’s Morning Coffee Break is finding U.S. equity futures are indicating a lower open this morning after yesterday’s push higher towards an all-time high of less than two points in the S&P 500.

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Morning Coffee Break – Friday March 22 U.S. equity markets are pointing to higher open on the first day of the week of a short week.  All three U.S. indexes are in the green on a Cyprus last minute bailout plan that was approved by European Union Finance Ministers.

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Morning Coffee Break – Thursday March 21 With no significant impact from the Federal Reserve’s two day meeting and statement the S&P 500 is coming off its largest gain in over two weeks.  The crisis over in Cyprus hasn’t even deterred the U.S. equities from moving higher.

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U.S. stock indexes printed small gains yesterday as market participants begin to focus on the two day Federal Reserve meeting.  Analysts are looking for policymakers to provide further monetary stimulus – QE4? However, the Fed watchers will also be watching for any signs of deal or lack of deal concerning the fiscal cliff.

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U.S. markets are coming off a meager up week with the Dow Jones and S&P 500 closes the in the green the last 3 session prior to the weekend.  The NASDAQ, however, is having difficulties with its largest component Apple (AAPL, quote) continues to struggle. 

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Welcomes to today’s Morning Coffee Break – U.S. markets are coming of the largest single day gains since early September.  Depending on which analysts have the airways the move was due to an extreme oversold condition while others point to the growing confidence in a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff.

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Welcome to today’s Morning Coffee Break – U.S. markets are getting ready for the final session of a losing week.  Markets suffered on increasing focus and concern over the looming fiscal cliff.  Opinions surrounding the fiscal cliff differ from one extreme to the other. 

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Welcome to Monday’s Morning Coffee Break – U.S. futures are suggesting a positive open this morning after Friday’s sharpest one day drop in nearly four months.  Market participants will be starting the week off with no economic data releases putting the focus on earnings and U.S. politics.  Headlines in the Euro Zone will have a stronger impact on U.S. markets as well.