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CurveAheadMarketStrategies.com Morning Coffee Break

Welcome to Friday’s Morning Coffee Break – U.S. equity futures are suggesting lower open on final session of the week, weak Google (GOOG, quote) results dampened investor expectations for the remaining earnings season, especially those names in the tech sector.

CurveAheadMarketStrategies.com Morning Coffee Break

Welcome to Wednesday’s Morning Coffee Break – Yesterday’s rally of triple digits on the Dow Jones Industrial and over 14 points in the S&P 500 has put U.S. markets back in the green for the month of October, just 8 session before Friday’s 25th anniversary of the 1987 stock crash.

CurveAheadMarketStrategies.com Morning Coffee Break

Welcome to Tuesday’s Morning Coffee Break – U.S. futures are hanging in this morning as the market participants prepare for a slew of earnings results from the likes of Coca Cola (KO, quote), Mattel (MAT, quote) and Intel (INTC, quote) as well as a busy economic calendar today.

CurveAheadMarketStrategies.com Morning Coffee Break

Welcome to Monday’s Morning Coffee Break – U.S. markets this week start off behind the eight ball as markets come off their largest weekly losses in 4 months.  Market participants find themselves about to embark into the fast lane of earnings season with the S&P 500 at a low point not seen since last month on the September 4. The tech heavy NASDAQ is worse off sitting on a low

CurveAheadMarketStrategies.com Morning Coffee Break

Welcome to Friday’s Morning Coffee Break – As we begin the final trading session in the week and finish off the first two full weeks of October U.S. stock indexes are on pace for the largest weekly drop in four months.  October historically is a down month as markets prepare for the final two months of the year and it appears Mr. Market wants to stay with tradition as the

CurveAheadMarketStrategies.com Morning Coffee Break

Welcome to Thursday’s Morning Coffee Break – As we count down the final two sessions of the week U.S. indexes are on pace for the largest weekly drop since week ending on June 1st.  Will bulls be able to muster the first daily gain this week for S&P 500 and NASDAQ?

CurveAheadMarketStrategies.com Morning Coffee Break

Welcome to Tuesday’s Morning Coffee Break – Happy anniversary Mr. Market!  Today 5 years ago marks the closing highs for both the Dow Jones and S&P 500 indexes. It also marks the start of the downward move during the subsequent financial crisis.

CurveAheadMarketStrategies.com Morning Coffee Break

Welcome to Monday’s Morning Coffee Break – U.S. markets started the 4th quarter on uneven footing last week that somehow managed to pull off a positive week with the Dow Jones sitting at its best level since December 2007.

CurveAheadMarketStrategies.com Morning Coffee Break

Welcome to Tuesday’s Morning Coffee Break – U.S markets started off the 4th quarter with strong trading intraday gains, although the Dow Jones and S&P 500 indexes did close solidly in the green the markets did exhibit the most recent trend off lately of selling off into the close.  U.S. indexes closed well off their intraday highs with the NASDAQ falling into negative.   The averages ended the day well off

Afternoon Brief

Welcome to the today’s Afternoon Brief- Four hours into the U.S. session equities continue fall on data showing contracting manufacturing activity in the Chicago area, Chicago’s PMI came in at 49.7.