There are some days when the S&P 500 index futures start out in the green and never come close to going red. Friday was one of those days. Thanks to…
It took some time, but there was follow-through from Wednesday’s rally in a big way. The culprit for the early morning indecisiveness was the worse-than-expected Q2 GDP reading that was…
Conventional wisdom would say with earnings misses from two of the top three components of the S&P 500 index and a 0.75% hike in the Federal Funds Rate, that the…
After a robust 100-handle rally last Monday-Thursday, the S&P 500 index futures took a breather on Friday and gave a portion of the gains back. At the onset of the…
There are some days when the S&P 500 starts out green and never goes red. Then there are days similar to today when the index started out in the red…
Similar to Wednesday, the S&P 500 index futures began the regular session deep in the red, both the result of worse-than-expected inflation data. On Wednesday, after the scary CPI data,…
After the worse-than-expected June Consumer Price Index reading, the S&P 500 index futures tanked. At one point, it appeared that a test of last week’s low was imminent, but the…
Just ahead of the opening of premarket trading for equities, the S&P 500 index bottomed when it was 36 handles in the red. The index clawed its way back early…
With the top five components of the S&P 500 index being mega-cap tech, once they get going in a roll direction, it is hard to stop the momentum. For Monday’s…
Friday’s price action in the S&P 500 index futures was much more analogous to Wednesday’s than Thursday’s. The premarket decline was followed by a premarket rally past unchanged. The decline…