In this morning’s Sterling Stock Market Commentary we take a look at the market activity since our last update on Thursday June 6th, and provide our thoughts on the upcoming trading day.
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Sterling Weekly for the Week of February 13th, 2012 – 2011 Index Performance Results
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I was fairly surprised when I looked at the performance results of the various indices I track. Sterling Investment Services tracks roughly 39 various sector indices. Of these indices, 3 are interest rate indices that track the movement of interest rates, and the other 36 indices are stock based indices that either track the broad market or are designed to track specific market sectors.
The 3 interest rate indices I track obviously did well as the Fed manipulated interest lower, sending bond prices higher in the process. It is tough to get any message from a manipulated market. However, what I do see is a bubble forming that I am very concerned will be far more damaging to the US and world economy when it bursts than the housing bubble was when it burst. Of the 36 stock indices I track, 13 managed to show positive gains for 2011, however it should be noted that
Sterling Market Commentary for Wednesday January 25th, 2012
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A Few Thoughts on Wednesday’s Market: In looking at the charts from yesterday’s trading activity I noticed that it looks like the NASDAQ 100 ‘NDX’ has entered an area of upside resistance that could be tough to get through. Additionally the very vast majority of the sector indices I track are not confirming the move higher by the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Granted I expect the NASDAQ to be higher today due to the incredible earnings by Apple, Inc. ‘AAPL’. However…………….
Market Commentary – September 6th, 2011
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A Few Thoughts Before the Open: As we prepare to start this Tuesday following the Labor Day holiday we find that world stock markets were under pressure Monday while we in the U.S. had the day off. Both Asian and…
Market Commentary – September 2nd, 2011
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A Few Thoughts Before the Open: The employment numbers released this morning were horrible. As a result we are looking at a sell off on the open. I’ve updated my support and resistance levels on some of the indices I…
Market Commentary – August 16th, 2011
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A Few Thoughts Before the Open: As I write this, pre-market futures are sharply lower in the U.S. due to news form Europe that economic growth is slowing on that side of the Atlantic. Not sure where the futures will…
Market Commentary – August 15th, 2011
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A Few Thoughts After the Close: The overall market moved sharply higher yesterday in a relatively broad based move that saw basically every sector index I track move higher on the day. The strongest sectors were the N.A. Telecom, Banking, …
Market Commentary – August 11th, 2011
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A Few More Thoughts Before the Open: I’ve got a few more minutes in the office this morning and wanted to update the support and resistance points on a couple of the sector indices I have talked about recently. M.S.…
Market Commentary – August 8th, 2011
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A Few Thoughts After the Close: The overall market sold off sharply today with a major portion of the sell off coming in the last 45 minutes of the day. For the day, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was lower…
Market Commentary – July 18th, 2011
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A Few Thoughts Before the Open: The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed Friday at 12,479.73 Despite Friday’s move higher, the chart continues to show weakness. I think it is possible we could see it test its 40 day moving average, …