Friends It was another somewhat quiet day of trading as market participants seem to want to wait and get a look at Thursday’s CPI number before making any new commitments. On the economic front we got the JOLTs or job openings number and it was as high as it’s ever...

Friends We had a slight reverse of fortune today as the NASDAQ posted gains while the Dow slumped just a bit. The shares of Biogen were the big winners as it was announced that the FDA approved the biotech firm’s Alzheimer’s drug, which is very exciting news. The...

Friends Estimates were that the U. S. would have added 671,000 new jobs in May. Today’s actual number came in shy of that as instead 559,000 new jobs were added. Now, we have mentioned many times that sometimes good news is bad news and bad news is actually good for...

Friends It was another trading session where early gains in the market averages dissipated as the day wore on. No, there wasn’t a lot of selling as things did finish in the green, and the bears haven’t been able to marshal the forces for some time now. Perhaps the...

Friends The Bulls came out of the gate flying this morning, but as the trading session wore on they ran out of gas while limping to the finish line. As has been the case for some time now, Nasdaq was the most challenged of the market averages early in the session, but...