S&P 500

The S&P 500 Came Full Circle as the Index Weighed China’s Stock Markets, the Greek Debt Crisis and Fed Minutes

Fri Jul 10, 2015

The S&P 500 closed at 2,076.62 on Friday, up 1.23% along with the Shanghai composite index, which rocketed 4.54 ...

The S&P 500 Tanks As Greek PM Tsipras Called for a Surprise Referendum While Disappointing Jobs Report Didn’t Help Much Either

Thu Jul 2, 2015

The S&P 500 got hammered 2.09% on Monday after Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who just botched the debt ...

The S&P 500 Drifts Downward as the Greek Default Looms and the Russell Indexes are Rebalanced

Fri Jun 26, 2015

All eyes were on Greece, the Fed rate hike and the Russell Index annual rebalance at the close on Friday. Russell Investments adjusts the component companies in its ...

The S&P 500 is Stuck at the 2,120 level as the Final Chapter of the Greek Drama Looms

Fri Jun 19, 2015

The S&P 500 sold-off 1.03% on Monday to an intra-day low of 2,072.49 before bouncing off the double-bottom as the previous day’s meeting in Brussels between Greece and ...

The S&P 500 is Highly Correlated with the German DAX as the Greece Debt Drama Takes the Global Financial Markets Hostage

Fri Jun 12, 2015

The S&P 500 pulled back 0.65% on Monday after the market digested the U.S. non-farm payroll report released the ...

The S&P 500 Slid as the Yield of 10-Year U.S. Treasury Spiked

Fri Jun 5, 2015

The S&P 500 was dragged down by the interest rate sensitive sectors, including utilities, consumer staples and telecommunication services, as the yield of the U.S. ...

The S&P 500 Dipped Below the 2,120 Level Again as the U.S. Dollar Surged

Fri May 29, 2015

The U.S. dollar index, a weighted geometric index of the value of the U.S. dollar relative to a basket of six major currencies, gapped up 0.45% at the open on Tuesday and surged to ...

The S&P 500 Stalled as the U.S. Dollar Surged with No Clear Direction for a Fed Rate Hike

Fri May 22, 2015

The S&P 500 inched up 0.43% to an intra-day high of 2,131.78 on Monday after the news came across the Bloomberg financial terminals that, “Evans Repeats Fed ...

The S&P 500 Closed at an All-Time High as a Fed Rate Hike is Off the Table for Now

Fri May 15, 2015

The S&P 500 opened lower on Monday morning after digesting the news from China and a comment from San Francisco Fed President John Williams about a Fed rate hike. The ...

The S&P 500 Decided to Head North After Digesting Trade Data and the Jobs Report

Sun May 10, 2015

The S&P 500 gapped up on the open Monday morning as the final China HSBC/Markit Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) came in at 48.9 for April, missing the median estimate of ...

The S&P 500 Pulled Back as the Fed Gave No Clear Direction on Rate Policy

Sun May 3, 2015

The S&P 500 pulled back 0.46% for the week to close at 2,108.29. The Federal Reserve signaled on Wednesday, after the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting ...

Perceptions or Realities of Tech Bellwether Earnings Reports: Which Drove the S&P 500 to an All-Time High?

Mon Apr 27, 2015

The S&P 500 jumped 0.92% on Monday as the People's Bank of China (PBOC) announced late Sunday that it lowered ...

The Strategy on Options Expiration Friday for the S&P 500 was to Sell on Headline News

Sun Apr 19, 2015

The S&P 500 struggled at the 2,100 level this week, after a mixed bag of weak U.S. economic data and a lower economic growth forecast from the International Monetary Fund ...

Corporate Acquisition and Reorganization Helped to Push the S&P 500 Above the 2,100 Level

Sat Apr 11, 2015

The S&P 500 shrugged off the weak jobs report and focused more on the ISM non-manufacturing data, which showed that the U.S. non-manufacturing sector still continued ...

S&P 500 is Looking for Direction as the U.S. Economy Shows Signs of Sputtering

Sun Apr 5, 2015

The S&P 500 gave up most of its 1.22% gain from the oversold rebound on Monday to close on Thursday at 2,066.96, up 0.29% for the short trading week. ADP ...

“Bad News was Bad News” and a Sell-Off Pushed the S&P 500 Back to Retest the Trendline Support

Sun Mar 29, 2015

The S&P 500 gave up 2.23% for the week to close on Friday at 2061.02, barely positive for the year, after a batch of mixed economic data and the announcement by SanDisk ...

S&P 500 Broke Out as the Fed Removed the Term “Patient” From Its Statement, U.S. Dollar Index Tanked

Sun Mar 22, 2015

The S&P 500 surged 2.66% for the week to close on Friday at 2108.1, back near the all-time closing high of 2117.39 set ...

S&P 500 Pulls Back on Strong U.S. Dollar

Fri Mar 13, 2015

The S&P 500 sank another 0.86% this week and closed on Friday at 2053.40 as the U.S. dollar index (DXY) broke out the psychological head resistance level of 100 for the first time in over 12 years. The DXY, a weighted geometric ...

S&P 500 Sells Off After Strong Headline Jobs Report Despite Weak U.S. Consumer Spending in January

Fri Mar 6, 2015

The S&P 500 sold off 1.42% on Friday to close at 2071.26 as the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the U.S. Labor ...

S&P 500 Shrugs Off Weak U.S. Economic Data as Fed’s Yellen Tells Congress There Are No Imminent Rate Hikes

Fri Feb 27, 2015

The S&P 500 closed down slightly for the week at 2104.50 despite a downward-revised U.S. GDP, weak existing ...

S&P 500 Closed at a Record High as Markets Shifted to the Healthcare Sector and Turned Away the Energy Sector

Fri Feb 20, 2015

The S&P 500 closed at a record high of 2110.30 on Friday as Greek and European creditors agreed to a four month loan ...

S&P 500 Double Bottom Confirmed, Technical Projection is 2147

Fri Feb 13, 2015

The S&P 500 broke out of the symmetrical triangle and closed on Friday at an all-time high of 2096.99. The S&P 500 was up 2.01% for the week, despite some mixed U.S. economic ...

S&P 500 Pulled Back From the 2061 Resistance as S&P Credit Ratings Agency Cut Greece's Long-Term Rating

Fri Feb 6, 2015

The Bureau of Labor Statistics, a unit of U.S. Department of Labor, said on Friday that employers added 257,000 jobs ...

S&P 500 is Retesting the 1991 Resistance … What’s Next?

Fri Jan 30, 2015

The S&P 500 information technology sector tumbled over 4% last week, thanks to the Microsoft [NASDAQ:MSFT] earnings report that failed to impress Wall Street. Apple [NASDAQ ...

ECB Stimulus Euphoria Cut Short as S&P 500 Earnings Weaker-Than-Forecast

Fri Jan 23, 2015

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) trimmed the 2015 global growth forecast on Wednesday by 0.3% to 3.5%, citing deflation and a slowdown in consumer spending. The IMF ...

S&P 500 Tanked as Retail Sales and Big Banks Missed Estimates

Fri Jan 16, 2015

The U.S. Commerce Department said on Wednesday that core retail sales excluding automobiles, gasoline, building materials and food services fell 0.4% last month after a ...

S&P 500 Sells Off on Decent U.S. Nonfarm Payrolls: Everyone Isn’t Paying Enough Attention to the 10-Year U.S. Treasury Yield

Fri Jan 9, 2015

The U.S. Labor Department said on Friday that the nonfarm payrolls for December surged by 252,000, beating ...

S&P 500: Sorry, No Santa Clause Rally in 2014!

Wed Dec 31, 2014

The S&P 500 pushed to the new all-time high at 2093.55 on Monday, but closed down 1.03% on the final trading day of the year as the Greek snap elections and Russia’s free fall into an economic crisis continued to rattle the markets ...

The S&P 500 Index Quick Take

Fri Dec 26, 2014

The hedge fund managers decided to take money out of the other S&P sectors and piled into the lower-risk, dividend paying utilities and consumer staples sectors. The S&P healthcare sector sold off over 4% for the week as “fear” ...

The S&P 500 Index Quick Take

Fri Dec 19, 2014

Fears of the Russian financial crisis sent the ruble tumbling on the foreign exchanges. At one point on Tuesday, the ruble dropped more than 20% as crude oil prices continued to slide. Russia’s central bank raised interest rates from 11.5% to ...

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