Dow declines -188.88 points (-1.14%) to end at 16,431.78: Tuesday February 23, 2016

Dow declines 188.88 points ( -1.14 %) to settle at 16,431.78.

The US Large Cap S&P 500 index declines 24.23 points ( -1.25 %) and is now at 1,921.27.

The tech heavy Nasdaq declines 67.03 points ( -1.47 %) closing at 4,503.58.

Oil settles at $31.29 ( -1.82 % from last trading day.)

Gold is now at $1,226.70 ( +0.34 % from previous.)

The 10 year bond yield is at 1.74%. The interest rate of the yield has decreased ( -0.02 %), 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 26.67 % while the percent of declining stocks is at 67.00 %. Volume is -04.45 % % from the average. Lower volume means there is lower conviction in this (down) move.

The percent of stocks above the 50 Day Moving Average is 48.11 % while the percent of stocks above the 200 Day Moving Average is 25.20 %. The percent of stocks above the 200 Day Moving Average says that stocks are generally in a downtrend and not yet oversold.

There are 00.51 % of stocks hitting a new 52 week high with 01.12 % of stocks hitting a new 52 week low.

The S&P 500 return over the last 52 weeks is -09.10 %.

The median forward PE is at 14.13, the average 5 year estimated growth is at 12.48 % and average yield is 02.41 %.

The average PEGY ratio (PEGY = (PE Ratio / (Growth+Yield))) is 1.95. The PEGY Ratio of 1.95 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:

1. Apple Inc. (AAPL) at 94.69 (-2.19;-02.26 %)
2. Willis Group Holdings Public Limited Company (WSH) at 47.18 (-1.39;-02.86 %)
3. Facebook, Inc. (FB) at 105.46 (-1.70;-01.59 %)
4. Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) at 552.94 (-6.56;-01.17 %)
5. JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) at 56.12 (-2.45;-04.18 %)

The winners with above average volume are:

1. Newport Corp. (NEWP) at 22.76 (7.72; 51.33 %)
2. Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (EYES) at 6.79 (1.50; 28.36 %)
3. Rockwell Medical, Inc. (RMTI) at 9.51 (1.64; 20.84 %)
4. Momo Inc. (MOMO) at 12.00 (1.98; 19.76 %)
5. Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. (HLX) at 3.53 (0.57; 19.26 %)

The losers with above average volume are:

1. PTC Therapeutics, Inc. (PTCT) at 10.84 (-17.42;-61.64 %)
2. Chegg, Inc. (CHGG) at 3.47 (-1.87;-35.02 %)
3. C&J Energy Services, Ltd. (CJES) at 1.61 (-0.49;-23.33 %)
4. Stone Energy Corp. (SGY) at 1.42 (-0.43;-23.24 %)
5. Odyssey Marine Exploration Inc. (OMEX) at 2.41 (-0.66;-21.50 %)

Most Recent Financial News (Updated Tue Feb 23 15:00:01 MST 2016)

1. Oil still has a chokehold on stocks
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3. Lithium-ion batteries banned as cargo on planes
4. Congressman tells FBI to back down on Apple
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6. Iran calls Saudi oil production freeze a ‘joke’
7. Millions of Mars and Snickers bars recalled
8. Americans moving to Europe for free college
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11. Calif.’s Obamacare insurers see shift
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16. 2 more signs recession could be coming
17. The GOP’s deep denial about Trump
18. Yikes: CDC reports 14 new sexually transmitted Zika cases
19. A woman shops for jewellery at a Kohl’s department store in
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21. Home Depot sales jump 9.5 percent
22. Ryan: Trump tapping into anger
23. IPO market needs a turnaround
24. Mickey-shaped solar farm near Orlando?
25. Morgan Freeman on your GPS?
26. Oil prices could hit $60 by end of year: Analyst
27. Sports Authority to file bankruptcy soon: Report
28. Subaru surges, Jeep stumbles in annual auto report
29. Key: The other drought in California isn’t about water
30. The NY Times wants to get rid of the $100 bill
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35. API data show U.S. oil supplies up 7.1 million barrels:
36. Avis shares down 11% after company narrowly misses on revenue
37. Caesars loss narrows on higher hotel room revenue
38. City-by-city look at U.S. house prices in December
39. Etsy posts strong growth in revenue, users
40. Etsy shares rally after adjusted earnings, revenue beat
41. Why the existing-home sales figures are even better than they
42. Fed’s George says interest-rate increase should be on the
43. Game: Stop hikes quarterly dividend to 37 cents a share
44. Health: South tops Wall Street estimates, raises outlook
45. London, German exchanges in merger talks — again
46. Monster Beverage to pay $690 mln for American Fruits & Flavors
47. New inversion bill takes aim at ‘earnings stripping’
48. Obama says Guantanamo ‘contrary to our values,’ again urges
49. Dow, S&P 500 post worst loss in a week as oil prices plummet
50. Web: MD says profit rises 69%, gives upbeat outlook
51. Last week, BMO Capital Markets said several bank stocks were
52. A rally above $65 on VFC with expanding volume is needed to turn
53. The Anglo-Australian mining company is the latest to cut its
54. Bad news is already priced into the British pound, but there could
55. We see more sideways price action for HON and perhaps renewed
56. Proxy adviser wants them ousted, which is what I’ve been saying.
57. Without a significant rise in the OBV line and a broader base,
58. Looking at the price action and volume on 3 key financials, I
59. Investors should be concerned if the analog semiconductor device
60. HD could retest the resistance around $130 to $135, and may even
61. Investors have been shifting away from the builders and toward the
62. UTX put the kibosh on any potential merger, saying that the deal
63. A better buying opportunity for IR is likely to present itself in
64. A weak sector, a quant downgrade and a bearish chart.
65. Big numbers and big plans, but consumer spending needs big
66. From basic materials to utilities, here’s my take.
67. A portfolio of dividend-paying stocks meeting Damodaran’s criteria
68. JWN plunged Friday on weak earnings, but you ain’t seen nothin’
69. Market moves with oil again.
70. This could be a nice, long-term hold for a more aggressive
71. More fallout from the CDC’s latest report.
72. When it comes to the market rally, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
73. Coming off the heels of a disastrous earnings call, the London
74. CEO Marissa Mayer may be pushing some of Yahoo!’s core Web assets
75. But some players are waiting to see if this is a failed bounce.
76. U.S. indices are down as Brent crude reverses its earlier gains.
77. The flash-memory storage firm lost a major partner in its
78. Here is a closer look at Renaissance Technologies’ 10 biggest new
79. “This is probably the biggest thing we have done as a brand in a
80. Volatile and declining capital markets mean that the Federal
81. Ted Cruz is backpedaling for allegedly using dirty tricks to
82. Energy prices and stocks recently spiked, but the oil glut won’t
83. Home Depot hasn’t suffered from the larger trend of consumers
84. Yahoo!’s rocky history and failure to capitalize on its purchase
85. The maker of the popular Civic and Accord is struggling with
86. Stocks hover near lows by midday Tuesday as another slump in crude
87. Disney shares have dropped over 8% this year as concerns about the
88. O.K., so the student loans are bad and the credit card debt is
89. Volatile markets and slowing global growth are creating
90. A handful of high momentum growth names kept the averages in flat
91. Not all energy stocks are in dire straits. Here’s a refiner that
92. The: Street’s Jim Cramer likes Kroger, WhiteWave, Allergan and
93. For Sarepta Therapeutics, a paragraph inside an obscure FDA
94. Life expectancies are on the rise and that means you’ll need to
95. U.S. investors are turning less bearish on China, which is helping
96. Macy’s is surging after its earnings report. Here’s how to trade
97. Wall Street Selloff Wipes Out Monday’s Rally
98. The International Energy Agency just released a new report that
99. Led by CEO Gary Goldberg, Newmont Mining is up over 40% during the
100. Time Inc. might buy Yahoo!’s core business, a new messaging app is

As of: Tue Feb 23 15:10:02 MST 2016