October 23, 2009, 4:00 am … Closing Thoughts … The Standard & Poor’s 500 index down 13.31 to 1079.60, as a rising dollar hit the market by pushing prices for commodities such as oil lower, which weighed on energy and materials stocks. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index is up 61.6 percent [...]
October 23, 2009, 7:00 am … The Standard & Poor’s 500 index futures up 1.50 to 1091.07, as Germany’s DAX up 61.74 to 5,819.39 after the Ifo Institute said its monthly business climate index edged up for the seventh month running to 91.9 points in October from 91.3 in September. The Ifo [...]
October 22, 2009, 4:05 pm … Closing Thoughts … The Standard & Poor’s 500 index closed up 11.51 to 1092.91, as Wal-Mart Stores Inc. WMT – last $50.48 said it expects sales to grow this year and increase at a faster pace next year. The market’s bounce on the WNT forecast illustrates [...]
October 22, 2009, 7:00 am … The Standard & Poor’s 500 index futures off 1.10 to 1077.10, FTSE 100 declined 1.4 percent, Germany’s DAX index declined 1.7 percent, and France’s CAC-40 declined 1.7 percent. Overseas, Japan’s Nikkei stock average fell 0.6 percent. In afternoon trading, Britain’s FTSE 100 declined 1.4 percent, Germany’s [...]
October 21, 2009, 4:00 am … Closing Thoughts … The Standard & Poor’s 500 index closed down 9.66 to 1081.40, as the Fed’s latest snapshot of business conditions nationwide found “many sectors” of the economy either stabilized or logged modest improvements over the last six weeks. The pickups were from “depressed” levels [...]