Dow appreciates 53.21 points ( +0.32 %) to settle at 16,484.99.
The US Large Cap S&P 500 index appreciates 8.53 points ( +0.44 %) and is now at 1,929.80.
The tech heavy Nasdaq went up 39.03 points ( +0.87 %) close at 4,542.61.
Oil settles at $32.23 ( +0.25 % from last trading day.)
Gold is now at $1,230.10 ( -0.73 % from previous.)
The 10 year bond yield is at 1.74%. The interest rate of the yield has increased (-0.00%), meaning that the value of the bond has decreased. Increasing bond yield means that the value of the bond decreases and hurts bond holders but can encourage people to put more money in bonds for the higher yield.
The percentage of advancing stocks in the InvestDashboard.com stock universe is at 60.20 % while the percent of declining stocks is at 32.48 %. Volume is 04.86 % % from the average. Higher volume means there is higher conviction in this (up) move.
The percent of stocks above the 50 Day Moving Average is 51.29 % while the percent of stocks above the 200 Day Moving Average is 27.02 %. The percent of stocks above the 200 Day Moving Average says that stocks are generally in a downtrend and not yet oversold.
There are 00.72 % of stocks hitting a new 52 week high with 00.91 % of stocks hitting a new 52 week low.
The S&P 500 return over the last 52 weeks is -08.04 %.
The median forward PE is at 13.96, the average 5 year estimated growth is at 12.46 % and average yield is 02.40 %.
The average PEGY ratio (PEGY = (PE Ratio / (Growth+Yield))) is 1.93. The PEGY Ratio of 1.93 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 07.03 %.
The most traded stocks based on dollar value traded are:
- Facebook, Inc. (FB) at 106.88 (1.42; 01.35 %)
- Apple Inc. (AAPL) at 96.10 (1.41; 01.49 %)
- Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) at 554.04 (1.10; 00.20 %)
- Willis Group Holdings Public Limited Company (WSH) at 47.18 (-1.39;-02.86 %)
- Bank of America Corporation (BAC) at 12.13 (-0.03;-00.25 %)
The winners with above average volume are:
- Sequential Brands Group, Inc. (SQBG) at 7.55 (1.87; 32.92 %)
- Ixia (XXIA) at 11.93 (2.58; 27.59 %)
- Chesapeake Energy Corporation (CHK) at 2.69 (0.50; 22.83 %)
- Encana Corporation (ECA) at 3.68 (0.67; 22.26 %)
- DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. (DWA) at 25.63 (4.57; 21.70 %)
The losers with above average volume are:
- Skyline Medical Inc. (SKLN) at 1.70 (-1.22;-41.78 %)
- C&J Energy Services, Ltd. (CJES) at 1.09 (-0.52;-32.30 %)
- The Advisory Board Company (ABCO) at 26.50 (-9.79;-26.98 %)
- Avis Budget Group, Inc. (CAR) at 22.04 (-7.95;-26.51 %)
- Heat Biologics, Inc. (HTBX) at 1.18 (-0.39;-24.84 %)
Most Recent Financial News (Updated Wed Feb 24 15:00:01 MST 2016)
- Apple Watch had a disappointing holiday quarter
- Maricopa official: No more iPhones for employees
- Unicorn once worth $2.7B goes into bankruptcy
- Volatile oil is rocking markets (again)
- Apple’s stock has worms but FBI isn’t one of them
- The $100,000 job: Garbage workers
- What would a President Trump mean for the Fed?
- Can you build a $1 million nest egg from scratch at age 50?
- Kesha: Battle with producer ‘bigger than just about me’
- Walmart yanks hoverboards from its site
- The surprisingly best strategy of 2016
- Shopping health: You can save lots
- ‘Year Up’ offers path to success
- The Victoria’s Secret disruptor?
- Fast food is suddenly having a hot dog war
- Canada can adjust to low oil prices: Minister
- China has most billionaires: Report
- Tornado turns city into ‘war zone,’ others expected
- For sports, streaming is game changer
- Fed’s Kaplan does not expect recession this year
- Lacker: No evidence recession imminent
- Expert: The end of manual labor
- The real problem with health insurance
- The economics of a Supreme Court pick
- Most/least expensive cars to insure
- HP earnings fall on ‘tough’ PC and printer markets
- New home sales fall sharply in January
- Tighter rules for some Obamacare customers
- This is one of San Francisco’s coolest offices
- Workers at an oil well in Kazakhstan.
- Nuts recalled for possible salmonella
- ‘We will destroy you’: Strip club clients blackmailed
- Where Target trounced Wal-Mart
- Target profit, revenue fall short
- 5 stocks strictly for the bulls
- US Treasurys are the place to be: Pimco’s Clarida
- 1 in 4 Americans on verge of financial ruin
- Anadarko shares up 7% after company discloses asset sales
- U.S. stocks stage late-day rally to end higher as oil
- Europol chief warns ‘Brexit’ could undermine crime-fighting
- HP earnings fall amid weakness in printers, PCs
- HP shares gain on in-line quarterly earnings
- Imax shares fall after earnings miss Street view
- Dollar trims decline as oil recovers
- QEP Resources halts dividend on lower crude, gas prices
- Restoration Hardware shares sink in after-hours after
- Salesforce.com shares rally 7% on outlook
- Salesforce.com’s sales, outlook top expectations
- Stripe starts program for foreign startups to do business in
- Target has taken e-commerce lead against bricks-and-mortar
- Treasury yields swing higher as oil, stocks recover in choppy
- Our family home was destroyed in a fire ‘ now my siblings want
- We see more sideways price action for HON and perhaps renewed
- Looking at the price action and volume on 3 key financials, I
- Investors should be concerned if the analog semiconductor device
- A weak sector, a quant downgrade and a bearish chart.
- Both companies are relying on revenue and earnings from a
- Bank of America has lost a third of its value in just two months,
- Sometimes you just can’t unlock a good stock’s underlying worth.
- And it could present a buying opportunity for the British pound.
- Shares of the online marketplace could be hemmed in by resistance
- Earnings are behind the stock and the recent gap up is holding
- The world of manufacturers is under renewed pressure to combine,
- Weak stocks hurt consumer confidence, which further weakens
- Looking ahead, Target could retest and go upward, but let’s not
- Momentum-income model can help.
- Real Money’s poll shows that the public is not a fan of large
- Odds favor further upside, but I’m sticking with my trading range
- The office supply retailer’s 4Q report doesn’t matter nearly as
- While the Canada-based company says it has no plans to issue
- This is not an environment for building big positions.
- Transocean Still Drilling Down
- U.S. indices continue to fall along with crude prices.
- A stake in Paramount is for sale, but is the movie industry stable
- The next important support area on the downside is $40, and our
- The home improvement retailer’s chart is increasingly bearish.
- Consumers can now use Pay with Amazon to pay for in-flight
- Regional lenders like Bank of Oklahoma and Comerica have more to
- Target’s fourth quarter profits trailed analyst estimates, but its
- JPMorgan Chase, the largest U.S. bank, is bolstering its reserves
- Instagram is rapidly increasing both its number of users and
- You won’t read much about it in the financial press, but bullish
- Argentina-based MercadoLibre (MELI) is putting Latin American
- Stocks turn mixed by late in the session Wednesday as crude oil
- Lowe’s reported a healthy quarterly increase in comparable-store
- With the economy losing some momentum, Americans are struggling to
- The new math on house unaffordability – and pointers to where you
- Stocks need some help from other catalysts — like commodities —
- Many long-held beliefs about how millennials and Gen Xers engage
- GM stock is declining after analysts warned U.S. auto volumes have
- REIT shares have popped in the past two weeks primarily because
- Insiders at these companies have been scooping up shares of their
- Office Depot will continue to close stores in 2016 in a bid to
- Costco is not in full breakout mode yet, but investors should be
- Portfolio manager Michael Barclay likes Microsoft, Johnson &
- The FDIC Quarterly Banking Profile for the fourth quarter shows a
- Chesapeake was up 16% in morning trading due to slightly
- Here’s a technical look at how to trade some of the most active
- Target (TGT) stock is gaining after the company reported solid
- Although government economic policies have good intentions behind
- Oil Grips Stocks in Topsy-Turvy Trading
- Storing personal goods may sound good, but it keeps you from
- Kraft Heinz (KHC) stock closed in the green before the company