Gregory Clay

Stock Barometer

Contributor since: 27 Apr 2014

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• Has The Federal Reserve Returned To Its Dovish Mindframe?

  Published 17 July 2017 | viewed 0 times

  Market Summary U.S. stocks closed at record highs on Friday in response to a mixed batch of corporate bank results and poor data on retail-sales…

• What To Expect During Earnings Season

  Published 10 July 2017 | viewed 0 times

  Market Summary For the week, the S&P 500 Index was basically flat up .2% while the Blue Chip-heavy Dow Jones Industrial Average finished where it…

• What To Expect From Stocks In July

  Published 03 July 2017 | viewed 0 times

  For the week, the S&P 500 Index was basically flat up .2% while the Blue Chip-heavy Dow Jones Industrial Average finished where it started. The…

• Triple-Digit Moves To Nowhere

  Published 02 October 2016 | viewed 0 times

  Market Summary All the major indexes traded flat for the week basically finishing where they started. A standard chart that we use to help confirm…

• Be Careful End of 3rd Qtr.

  Published 25 September 2016 | viewed 0 times

  Market Summary The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished the week with a gain of 0.8% while the S&P 500 recorded its best weekly performance in…

• Be Especially Cautious Next Week

  Published 18 September 2016 | viewed 0 times

  Market Summary U.S. stocks put a choppy week in the books as the major indexes posted minute weekly gains. For the week, Blue Chip-heavy Dow…

• Current Market Pullback May Have Legs

  Published 11 September 2016 | viewed 0 times

  Market Summary This week was second-largest weekly drop for the Dow this year, and the largest for the S&P 500 since early February. Friday's broad…

• Summer Swoon In Stock Market

  Published 05 September 2016 | viewed 0 times

  Market Summary For the week, both the Blue Chip-heavy Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 Index rose 0.5% while the Midcap S&P 400 was…

• Investors React To Hawkish Fed

  Published 28 August 2016 | viewed 0 times

  Market Summary For the week, the Blue Chip-heavy Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.8% while the S&P 500 Index fell 0.7% and the Midcap S&P…

• Investors Respond Favorably To Fed Comments

  Published 21 August 2016 | viewed 0 times

  Market Summary The dog days of summer are among us, earnings season is over and investors are in pause mode with the popular indices near…

• Time To Hedge Long Positions

  Published 14 August 2016 | viewed 0 times

  Market Summary All three major U.S. stock indexes ended at record highs on Thursday for the first time since 1999, extending a recent rally that…

• Stocks Are Only Game In Town

  Published 07 August 2016 | viewed 0 times

  Market Summary U.S. stocks notched their best day in a month on Friday, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq closing at record highs after a…

• Small Caps, Tech Prop Up Market

  Published 31 July 2016 | viewed 0 times

  Market Summary Dow Industrials and S&P 500 broke their four-week win streak. The tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 had a record close as the sector has seen…

• Stocks Are Still Grinding Higher

  Published 24 July 2016 | viewed 0 times

  Market Summary The S&P and Dow have broken to all-time records in the past two weeks for the first time in more than a year…

• Investors Are Fully Risk-On

  Published 17 July 2016 | viewed 0 times

  Market Summary Typically we should be in the slowest time of the year, but not so in 2016, as the summer has marked some of…

• Reason Stocks Are Due For A Pause

  Published 10 July 2016 | viewed 0 times

  Market Summary The market surged to finish the week on a high note as stocks have fully recovered from post-Brexit lows and are looking to…

• Investors Overreact To Brexit Vote

  Published 26 June 2016 | viewed 0 times

  Market Summary U.S. equities plunged more than 3% on Friday after the surprise vote by the UK to leave the European Union. The historic vote…

• All Eyes On Brexit Vote Next Week

  Published 19 June 2016 | viewed 0 times

  Market Summary U.S. stocks finished out the week lower, as investors continued to fret over the possibility that the U.K. may leave the European Union…

• Getting Nervous Ahead Of Fed Meeting

  Published 12 June 2016 | viewed 0 times

  Market Summary Despite the end of the week sell-off, U.S. equities managed to ward off a major slide due to early week strength in the…

• Market Stalls On Weak Job Numbers

  Published 05 June 2016 | viewed 0 times

  Market Summary After the dismal May Jobs report on Friday, market pundits are speculating that a rate hike in June is not going to happen.…