9/3/2009

Market Wrap

After bouncing around much of the day, the indices were flat with an hour to go — but caught a nice ‘updraft’ in that final hour, the majority of it in the last twenty minutes.

Still a ways to go the get back the big drop on Tuesday:

Dow Industrials 9344.61 +63.94 +0.69%
S&P 500 1003.22 +8.47 +0.85%
Nasdaq Comp. 1983.20 +16.13 +0.82%
Russell 2000 562.49 +6.66 +1.20%
NYSE Comp. 6546.41 +71.62 +1.11%
Nasdaq 100 1605.98 +11.70 +0.73%
Dow Transports 3688.91 +82.01 +2.27%
Dow Utilities 368.68 +1.42 +0.39%

Internals were again positive, but volume was again lighter. Advances/declines were 3 to 1 on the NYSE and 2 to 1 on the Nasdaq, with up/down volume 6 to 1 on the NYSE and 7 to 3 on the Nasdaq. New highs/lows were 89/1 on the NYSE and 15/5 on the Nasdaq.

Leaders — Gold/Silver (+4.65%), Airlines (+3.46%), Metals (+2.95%), Banks (+2.53%), Steel (+2.23%), Retailers (+2.03%), REITs (+1.85%), Oil Services (+1.80%)
Laggards — Drugs (-0.64%), Defense (-0.18%), Health Care (-0.06%), Natural Gas (+0.03%), Health Care Products (+0.13%), HMOs (+0.36%), Utilities (+0.36%), Comp. Tech (+0.45%)

Treasury Yields — 6-Month: .22%,  2-Year: .91%,  5-Year: 2.29%,  10-Year: 3.34%,  30-Year: 4.16%

Energy Prices — Crude oil: $67.96/barrel,  Gasoline: $1.7928/gallon,  Natural Gas: $2.508/mmBTU

US Dollar Index — 78.424

Precious Metals — Gold: $992.60/ounce,  Silver: $16.12/ounce,  Platinum: $1247.00/ounce

BMB Note:  
Jobs number out tomorrow morning, and then we set up for a three-day weekend.

Posted: 3:07 pm

1 Comment »

  1. Interesting chart on that last half-hour over at Zero Hedge. Think things aren’t correlated?

    Comment by BMB — 9/3/2009 @ 3:16 pm

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