Dow declines 312.78 points ( -1.92 %) to settle at 16,001.89.

The US Large Cap S&P 500 index declines 49.57 points ( -2.57 %) and is now at 1,881.77.

The tech heavy Nasdaq declines 142.53 points ( -3.04 %) closing at 4,543.97.

Oil settles at $44.47 ( +0.09 % from last trading day.)

Gold is now at $1,131.90 ( +0.02 % from previous.)

The 10 year bond yield is at 2.09%. The interest rate of the yield has decreased ( -0.07 %), meaning that the value of the bond has increased. Decreasing bond yield means that the value of the bond increases and benefits bond holders but can discourage people from putting money in bonds.

The percentage of advancing stocks in the InvestDashboard.com stock universe is at 10.97 % while the percent of declining stocks is at 84.96 %. Volume is 15.19 % % from the average. Higher volume means there is higher conviction in this (down) move.

The percent of stocks above the 50 Day Moving Average is 18.39 % while the percent of stocks above the 200 Day Moving Average is 19.87 %. The percent of stocks above the 200 Day Moving Average says that stocks are generally in a downtrend and not yet oversold.

There are 00.14 % of stocks hitting a new 52 week high with 12.35 % of stocks hitting a new 52 week low.

The S&P 500 return over the last 52 weeks is -01.72 %.

The median forward PE is at 14.57, the average 5 year estimated growth is at 13.85 % and average yield is 01.75 %.

The average PEGY ratio (PEGY = (PE Ratio / (Growth+Yield))) is 1.87. The PEGY Ratio of 1.87 says market is on the more expensive side, but not a more extreme expensive valuation (PEGY of greater than 2.)

The average short percent of float is at 06.71 %.

The most traded stocks based on dollar value traded are:

  1. Apple Inc. (AAPL) at 112.44 (-2.27;-01.98 %)
  2. Facebook, Inc. (FB) at 89.21 (-3.56;-03.84 %)
  3. Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc. (VRX) at 166.50 (-32.97;-16.53 %)
  4. Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) at 504.06 (-20.19;-03.85 %)
  5. Allergan plc (AGN) at 254.87 (-24.16;-08.66 %)

The winners with above average volume are:

  1. Sanchez Production Partners LP (SPP) at 12.00 (7.32; 156.41 %)
  2. Republic Airways Holdings Inc. (RJET) at 5.29 (2.38; 81.79 %)
  3. Turtle Beach Corporation (HEAR) at 2.75 (0.61; 28.50 %)
  4. Media General, Inc. (MEG) at 13.64 (2.49; 22.33 %)
  5. Celator Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (CPXX) at 2.22 (0.23; 11.56 %)

The losers with above average volume are:

  1. Verastem, Inc. (VSTM) at 1.85 (-3.82;-67.37 %)
  2. Canadian Tire Corp. Ltd. (CDNA) at 4.11 (-2.84;-40.86 %)
  3. Ignyta, Inc. (RXDX) at 8.72 (-4.71;-35.07 %)
  4. Huntsman Corporation (HUN) at 9.92 (-3.99;-28.68 %)
  5. Epizyme, Inc. (EPZM) at 13.02 (-4.87;-27.22 %)

Most Recent Financial News (Updated Mon Sep 28 15:00:01 MDT 2015)


  1. Donald Trump’s wild claim: Unemployment is 42%
  2. Trump: Half of Americans would pay no income taxes
  3. Meet 3 angry Volkswagen owners
  4. Exclusive: Microsoft exec on Win 10 privacy backlash
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  6. Rich still win big in Trump’s tax plan
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  11. Mc: Carthy announces bid for Speaker of the House
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  14. Icahn warns of potential looming catastrophe
  15. Facebook’s new ad tools take on TV
  16. Analysts split on Apple’s big sales
  17. The Fed speaks, and investors scratch their heads
  18. Dudley: Fed will likely raise this year
  19. Fed’s Evans: Later rate hike better
  20. Gartman: Forget ‘being bearish’ on commodities
  21. Google to unveil new devices, OS
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  24. End for ‘anti-immigrant Dem’ Trump?
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  26. Nasdaq ‘death cross’ forms ‘four horsemen’ pattern
  27. Obama at the UN: I won’t hesitate to use force
  28. Pending home sales fell 1.4% in August
  29. Putin: ‘Do you realize what you have done?’
  30. The Syrian angle that Putin may be playing
  31. Trader on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.
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  34. Trump’s tax plan would benefit the rich
  35. The US should welcome Syrian refugees
  36. Is Tim Cook right about the PC market?
  37. 5 things to know about Kevin McCarthy
  38. Biotech fund posts worst single-day drop in 4 years
  39. Congressional Democrats seek subpoena of Valeant over drug
  40. Dollar falls against yen as stocks, oil sell off
  41. Forget VW ‘ GM and Ford stocks are ‘dirt cheap’
  42. Halliburton, Baker Hughes to sell more businesses
  43. IBM to buy Meteorix, a Workday service partner
  44. Microsoft to change how it reports finances
  45. Think VW’s stock can make you rich on a rebound? Think again
  46. Twitter bucks trend of tech stock slump
  47. Who said it: Obama or Putin?
  48. Some energy and mining names in the iShares MSCI South Africa ETF
  49. The charts show that the stock is due for a rally.
  50. We see resistance in the appreciation of the metal and maintain a
  51. A look at how current market conditions will affect key investors.
  52. A wider spread of corporate to government bonds can mean that
  53. Does the daily chart show a turn coming in the shares?
  54. A classic bar chart price pattern could signal a reversal from
  55. Glencore’s problems and Shell’s Arctic pullout are 2 leading
  56. Sales results and Piper Jaffray launch survey show positive trends
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  58. An improved momentum reading tells us the rate of decline has
  59. The Health Care SPDR ETF chart shows a failed rally to the
  60. Stock has been falling and neither short nor long is appealing.
  61. The Fed is on the dark side of the supermoon.
  62. A steady stream of relentless selling.
  63. With an activist entering the sector, here are some stocks to
  64. Our strategy for the stock is to look to buy available weakness in
  65. Just when things were going well, the Catalonian election
  66. Since mid-August, the stock’s slope has been negative, and prices
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  70. Tesla stock’s valuation is sky-high and there may be better entry
  71. Presidential campaigns are increasingly using video to present
  72. The role of inflation in Fed’s monetary policy remains crucial.
  73. There’s no telling where an investor might learn what a brokerage
  74. There is a lot for both venture capitalists and stock market
  75. The markets no longer believe in central bankers.
  76. As Alcoa splits its smelting and downstream businesses should you
  77. Alcoa management thinks it’s found just the solution to
  78. The bloodletting in biotech stocks continued Monday with
  79. “The Fed is caught between a rock and a hard place,” said Anthony
  80. Like in 2007, stocks suffered a 10% summer drop. In 2007, stocks
  81. U.S. stocks suffer heavy losses in volatile trading Monday ahead
  82. Winter may be coming for the largest banks in the U.S. as they
  83. Energy Transfer Equity management says the combination with
  84. India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with Facebook founder
  85. Some of the hottest private companies in the IPO pipeline should
  86. The $30 MiFone W15 smartwatch can’t compete with any of today’s
  87. These heavily shorted stocks could get squeezed much higher if
  88. The UAW could return to bargaining with Fiat Chrysler of turn its
  89. Upscale supermarket Whole Foods will trim 1.6% of the jobs from
  90. These stocks rising on unusual volume are within range of
  91. Shanghai, Nikkei and the Dow Jones Industrial Average are all
  92. Get your due. Some banks pay 100x more than others.
  93. Unusual volume can be a major signal that hedge funds and momentum
  94. Nike appears to have lost its momentum as the new week begins. For
  95. A former SEC chairman says he can remember no time in history when
  96. Choosing a health insurance plan should not be a decision which
  97. Wall Street kicks off the week looking worse for wear on a myriad
  98. If you think Millennials are struggling to find affordable

As of: Mon Sep 28 15:10:02 MDT 2015

Dow declines -312.78 points (-1.92%) to end at 16,001.89: Monday September 28, 2015
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