Pre-opening Comments for Wednesday September 28th U.S. equity index futures are higher this morning. S&P 500 futures are up 4 points in pre-opening trade. Confidence continues to build that Greece will be bailed out with bankruptcy. Index futures were virtually unchanged following release of the Durable Goods Orders report. Consensus for August Durable Goods Orders [...]

Pre-opening Comments for Wednesday August 31st U.S. equity index futures are higher this morning. S&P 500 futures are up 14 points in pre-opening trade. Index futures are responding to release of FOMC meeting minutes late yesterday suggesting that Quantitative Easing III is being considered by the Federal Reserve. Index futures improved slightly following release of [...]

Pre-opening Comments for Monday June 20th 2011 U.S. equity index futures are lower this morning. S&P 500 futures are down 5 points in pre-opening trade. Traders are responding to news that European finance ministers have deferred a decision to bail out Greece’s sovereign debt. Greece’s parliament is scheduled to vote on a finance package tomorrow. [...]

Pre-opening Comments for Wednesday June 1st U.S. equity index futures are lower this morning. S&P 500 futures are down 5 points in pre-opening trade. Index futures moved lower following release of the May ADP private employment report at 8:30 AM EDT. Consensus was an increase of 190,000. Actual was an increase of 38,000. The ADP [...]

  Rogers Communications, Inc (TSE: RCI.B) – $32.41 Cdn. News event: Upgraded by RBC Capital to Outperform Technical comment: Rogers’ intermediate technical profile has improved significantly during the past few trading days. The stock has broken above its 50 and 200 day moving averages. Today, its intermediate trend changed from down to up after the [...]