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CurveAheadMarketStrategies.com Morning Coffee Break

Welcome to Wednesday’s Morning Coffee Break – U.S. markets start the third session of the week after two straight days of uneven trading.  One positive take away from yesterday’s session was the break in the final hour sell off that has persists the last few weeks.

CurveAheadMarketStrategies.com Morning Coffee Break

Welcome to Tuesday’s Morning Coffee Break – U.S markets started off the 4th quarter with strong trading intraday gains, although the Dow Jones and S&P 500 indexes did close solidly in the green the markets did exhibit the most recent trend off lately of selling off into the close.  U.S. indexes closed well off their intraday highs with the NASDAQ falling into negative.   The averages ended the day well off

CurveAheadMarketStrategies.com Morning Coffee Break

Welcome to Monday’s Morning Coffee Break – Today’s U.S. session is the session of first – first day of new week, first day of new month and first day of a new quarter.  U.S. markets finished off the September and the 3rd quarter in the green albeit the bulls loss some steam the final week of trading.

CurveAheadMarketStrategies.com Morning Coffee Break

Welcome to Friday’s Morning Coffee Break – U.S. futures are moving lower on the last day of the week and quarter on fears from the Euro Zone fears and U.S. economic data. After mix data from the U.S. economic calendar traders are looking towards Consumer Income, Spending and Sentiment reports.

CurveAheadMarketStrategies.com Morning Coffee Break

Welcome to Thursday’s Morning Coffee Break – U.S. markets struggled the first 3 sessions of the week as its on pace for the largest weekly move in 4 months.  However, in today’s pre-market U.S. futures are pointing to bounce higher at the open as traders approached not only end of the week but the end of the 3rd quarter.

CurveAheadMarketStrategies.com Morning Coffee Break

Welcome to today’s Morning Coffee Break –despite losses last week U.S. markets are firmly in the green as market participants head into the last week of September and the final week of the 3rd quarter. Markets are in the green as well for the 3rd quarter putting markets on target to be the best year since 2009.

CurveAheadMarketStrategies.com Morning Coffee Break

Welcome to today’s Morning Coffee Break – traders had a case of Deja vu yesterday as the U.S. markets traded similar to last week ahead of the European Central Bank (ECB) and U.S Federal Reserve meetings. U.S. futures are indicating a positive opening today with the Dow Jones fair value of 30.36, S&P 500 fair value of 2.33 and the NASDAQ’s fair value currently at 5.37.  

CurveAheadMarketStrategies.com Morning Coffee Break

Welcome to today’s Morning Coffee Break – On the first day of trading this week traders are waking up to lower futures in the U.S. stock indexes after last week’s rally sparked by the Federal Reserve’s aggressive new round of quantitative (QE3) easing last week Thursday.

U.S. Stock Market

U.S. markets seem to be following global markets lower as we kick off the last week of June.  Investors are worried about the upcoming European Union summit that ruled not to have Greece leaders attend the summit.

U.S. Stock Market

All 3 U.S. stock indexes are pointing to a higher open as investors focus on the FOMC meeting and domestic issues facing U.S. economy. The question of the day is “what will the Fed do?”