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CurveAheadMarketStrategies.com Morning Coffee Break

Welcome to Thursday’s Morning Coffee Break – As we count down the final two sessions of the week U.S. indexes are on pace for the largest weekly drop since week ending on June 1st.  Will bulls be able to muster the first daily gain this week for S&P 500 and NASDAQ?

CurveAheadMarketStrategies.com Morning Coffee Break

Welcome to Wednesday’s Morning Coffee Break – U.S. market participants sold Tuesday’s session making it the largest one day drop since August 23 it’s also the last time the Dow Jones index has seen a 1% drop in 6 years. The NASDAQ has not seen this large of loss since June 25.

CurveAheadMarketStrategies.com Morning Coffee Break

Welcome to Tuesday’s Morning Coffee Break – Happy anniversary Mr. Market!  Today 5 years ago marks the closing highs for both the Dow Jones and S&P 500 indexes. It also marks the start of the downward move during the subsequent financial crisis.

CurveAheadMarketStrategies.com Morning Coffee Break

Welcome to Friday’s Morning Coffee Break – As market participants prepare for the final session of week and as traders prepare to close out the first week of the 4th quarter traders find the markets walking a thin line. As of yesterday’s close U.S. markets appear to be on track for their first positive week in 3 weeks. However, as the aforementioned thin line markets could swing to either side

CurveAheadMarketStrategies.com Morning Coffee Break

Welcome to Thursday’s Morning Coffee Break – market participants will need to navigate several market directional influences today. The S&P 500 index has gains for 3 straight sessions with today’s futures suggesting a positive open once again.

Energy Report

The weak tone of yesterday’s session indicates that oil prices may move toward the lower end of the two-week consolidation near $89.00 in the near-term. Focus will be on DOE inventories and ADP payrolls today, which may offer modest pressure. Pressure could also come from a lack of investment moving into energy markets at the start of Q4, concerns over global growth, and a slow pace of reform in Spain and Greece. Support may be found from favorable car sales reported yesterday, and relative strength in the euro. We’d look for prices to test support at $88.95 (Sep 26th low) over the next few days.

Energy Report

The S&P is up over 14% on the year, $ follows $ and the world loves equities over nearly everything else, is it any surprise to see a surge in equities yesterday while grains get punished and it happened to be the 1st day of the new quarter?

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 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.