Michael Sheldon
Michael Sheldon
Michael Sheldonis a former Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League...
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When all was said and done, the market showed its resilience once again, ... The market performed well despite today's extremely weak consumer sentiment number. Investors seem to be looking over a softer economy for the next few months towards a stronger economy to start 2006.
factors few improved last market plus sentiment technical trends
The technical trends of the market and the sentiment has improved over the last few weeks, plus there are seasonal factors working in the market's favor.
looking market profit run seeing technical
Temporarily, the market may have run out of gas. On a technical basis, we're looking overextended, so you're seeing a little profit taking,
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The tone in the market is a little better. We saw strong gains in Japan as they move toward an end to quantitative easing.
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When the central bank came out and said they're going to drain liquidity over a period of months, that was a catalyst for investors who have avoided the stock market to put some money back in.
certainly continuing energy fed guy hard high markets money prices putting raise rates shy
With the fed continuing to raise rates and energy prices at very high levels, its hard to see the markets making much headway, ... certainly been guy shy about putting new money to work.
again appears bond culprit finally higher highs likely markets minds pushed rally yields
Today, the markets once again pushed to new highs for the indices but the rally appears to have stalled. The likely culprit is that higher bond yields may finally be weighing on the minds of investors.
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Today's weak market performance is the result of some worse-than-expected earnings reports and a decline in the consumer confidence report.
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Right now, I think the market needs a catalyst in order to get out of this difficult environment. Hopefully if oil prices continue to decline and move back into the mid $50s, that could turn sentiment more positive on Wall Street.
auto came data eight eye far footing gains gotten investors keeping line looking looks market positive seeing stock
Looks like the stock market has gotten off on positive footing after yesterday's broad-based decline. We're seeing gains in eight of 10 S&P sectors. The data that came out so far was pretty much in line with expectations. Looking ahead, investors will be keeping an eye on auto sales.
earnings far favorable gotten intel lead likely market needed news opening positive season
So far the earnings season has gotten off to an underwhelming start. I think the positive news from Intel is just what the market needed and is likely to lead to a favorable opening on Wednesday.
earnings far favorable gotten intel lead likely market needed news opening positive season
So far the earnings season has gotten off to an underwhelming start, ... I think the positive news from Intel is just what the market needed and is likely to lead to a favorable opening on Wednesday.
closing equity likelihood lows markets start trading weak wednesday
With equity markets closing at their lows of the day Tuesday, the likelihood is that trading may get off to weak start on Wednesday morning.
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The optimist would say we're in the early stage of a broad rally, the pessimist would say this is a dead-cat bounce and markets are going to head lower as oil heads toward $50 a barrel.