Market Update 4:20PM: Marooned within a trading range that kept the indices on both sides of the flat line, the stock market was roiled today by reinvigorated energy price action and continued inflation concerns that overshadowed expected Q3 earnings growth. Although a pair of upside Q3 earning reports, from Alcoa (AA 22.87 +0.21) and Genentech (DNA 84.50 +2.50) during yesterday's after hours session, gave traders early reason to reverse respective declines of 3.2%, 3.4%, and 3.5% on the Dow, S&P, and Nasdaq over the last six sessions, gains were once again unsustainable and fell victim to...
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3:24 pm PT Swing Trader: Oy Vey! Another Down Day!?!? : -Technical- There's an adage among floor traders about "Selling Rosh Hashanah" and "Buying Yom Kippur." So far, if you sold on October 4 (Rosh Hashanah), you've been sitting pretty the last 6 sessions. If the saying holds true, then this Thursday, October 13, should finally start to see some buyers enter into this market. (continued)
1:19 pm PT Advanced Micro beats by $0.10 (AMD) :Reports Q3 (Sep) earnings of $0.18 per share, $0.10 better than the Reuters Estimates consensus of $0.08; revenues rose 20.9% year/year to $1.52 bln vs the $1.38 bln consensus. AMD reports gross margin 41% vs 41.5% street expectation. Co expects fourth quarter microprocessor sales to grow between 7-13% sequentially.