Sponsored By: Today’s Summary Wednesday, August 28th, 2019 Indices: US stocks were higher in today’s session with the Dow Jones Industrial Average gaining 258 points or 1.00%. The Russell 2000 was the strongest of the major indices, advancing 1.15%. Sectors: Energy led, gaining 1.43%. Utilities were the only sector to close negative, falling 0.27%. Commodities: Crude Oil futures rose 1.58% to $55.76 per barrel. Gold futures inched lower by 0.15% to […]
Archives for August 2019
The Tale of Two Retail ETFs
This is a 3-Year performance chart of the two largest Retail Industry ETFs by AUM, SPDR S&P Retail, $XRT (green line), and the VanEck Vectors Retail, $RTH (blue line). Depending on which ETF you’re looking at, Retail could either be in a structural uptrend and testing all-time highs, like $RTH… or a trendless mess and […]
Chart of the Day – Wednesday, August 28th, 2019
Today’s Chart of the Day was shared on Twitter by Troy Bombardia (@bullmarketsco). It’s a chart of the S&P 500 ($SPX) with a proprietary sentiment indicator below it. Troy points out that sentiment is excessively pessimistic even though the S&P 500 is above its 200-day moving average and less than 5% off of its all-time high. […]
Daily Chart Report ? Tuesday, August 27th, 2019
Sponsored By: Today’s Summary Tuesday, August 27th, 2019 Indices: US stocks closed lower in today’s session with the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling 121 points or 0.47%. The Russell 2000 was significantly weaker than the rest of the major indices, slipping 1.35%. Sectors: Communications led, gaining 0.19%. Energy lagged, falling 0.62%. Commodities: Crude Oil futures rose 2.35% to $54.89 per barrel. Gold futures climbed 0.94% to a new multi-year […]
Chart of the Day – Tuesday, August 27th, 2019
Today’s Chart of the Day was shared on Twitter by Dan Russo of Chaikin Analytics (@DanRusso_CMT). It’s a daily candlestick chart of the Small-cap Russell 2000 index over the past year. The Russell 2000 has been in focus recently as it continues to underperform the other major indices. Today, it fell beneath the June low and […]
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