Market Update Close: The recovery that was attempted yesterday materialized today - sending the indices upwards, enabling all ten economic sectors to post gains, and helping to erase some of the broad-based declines that have plagued October. Perhaps most significantly, the market managed to not only sustain early gains, but finished at its best levels of the day. Traders found reason to reinitiate buying efforts after bullish news on both the economic and corporate fronts helped dispel some of the pessimism that has prevented leadership from emerging and which has characterized the quarter. The...
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12:58 pm PT Afternoon Wrap: Positive Friday again but Semi lags :For the second week in a row the market has taken it on the chin with the lows noted at Thursday's trough bringing the slide off the Oct high in the S&P 500 to 5.2% (high to low). Also like the previous week we have also seen some improvement on Friday. Today's performance is better than last Friday as the gains have been more substantial and broader based. Pacing the way today are: Airline +3.1%, Coal +2.7%, Oil Service +2.5%, Healthcare +2.4%, Casino +2.3%, Natural Gas +2%, Tobacco +1.9%, Biotech +1.9%, Software +1.9%, REIT +1.9%, Disk Drive +1.7%, Steel +1.6%, Defense +1.5%. One note of caution today is the lagging performance of the Semi sector -0.9%.
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