Pre-opening Comments for Thursday January 26th U.S. equity index futures are higher this morning. S&P 500 futures are up 6 points in pre-opening trade. Index futures are responding to news that private sector creditors are ready to accept an interest rate of 3.75% on Greek debt as part of a restructuring proposal. Previously, the Greek [...]

Pre-opening Comments for Thursday March 24th U.S. equity index futures are higher this morning. S&P 500 futures are up 7 points in pre-opening trade. Index futures are responding to weakness in the U.S. Dollar. Commodities priced in U.S. Dollar are higher. Gold added $0.20 per ounce, silver gained $0.46 per ounce and crude oil increased [...]

Pre-opening Comments for Monday March 21st U.S. equity index futures are higher this morning. S&P 500 futures gained 15 points in pre-opening trade. Index futures are responding to news that AT&T is buying T-Mobile U.S. from Deutsche Telecom for $39 billion in a cash and stock deal. Deutsche Telecom and other telecom stocks led the [...]

Something has come up with Donny V today, so it will be just me today.   Don will return with his regular Tech Talk report on Friday. It’s all good though, cause the markets got absolutely hammered and I think we’re all hurting a little right now.   Of the 672 stocks analyzed on the S&P 500 [...]

Yet again, earnings have the power to sway the markets.   Of the 672 stocks analyzed on the S&P 500 and TSE, 510 advanced, 155 declined, and the last 7 remained “un-swayed”.   The stochastics on the analyzed securities continue to lean towards overbought, however just as many stocks are starting new upward trends which will continue [...]