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Records for all three major averages. There is another milestone we reached today. Thes 26 straight sessions s p has moved at least 1 . This goes all the way back to july 8. We have seen the s p up 8 in that timeline, and hitting records on multiple occasions as progress has continued to be slow progress upward. Lets look at the major averages. They are holding relatively steady with gains of 4 for the s p and the dow ands euro. 6 for the nasdaq. A lot of the gains have to do with oil prices. We have seen the correlation of oil and stocks come back. It was broken for a little bit. Crude oil re...

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If you check out crude oil prices. Crude was all over the place yesterday. It did end the day up. See its up 31 cents right now. Wti at 45. 14. Nasdaq closed at a new high for the year yesterday. Lets get you caught up on some of the other big stories were watching. Notable comments coming from San Francisco fed president. Cue the star warz music. Repeating calls for gradual Interest Rate hikes saying it makes no sense to get back to a pace of steady increases sooner rather than later. The economy is in his words in good shape. Fed policymaker criticizing the Central Banks approach of targetin...

Percent and the dow is up little higher and the nasdaq is up by 1 . Question was whether traders would see a selloff before the president s day to day weekend but we are Holding Onto Gains as we go into the holiday weekend. Lets look at sector performance. You can see for the most part its a broadbased rally. The s p 500 10 sectors are in the green but utilities are down a little. Financials are the biggest leader up by 3. 25 and they were the biggest laggard yesterday. 2. 4 ials are up by 25 and energy is up. Some of the financial stocks are in rally mode. Bank of america and citigroup yester...

And is one of these catalysts rallies we have seen over the past week or so, that nothing necessarily fundamentally a change. Oil rally,ng european stocks rally, and now that has right to the noted date as well. United states as well. Take a look at the imac, the sectors on the move. Materials doing good, industrial also on that list. All of the major Industry Groups on the rise. If you look throughout the session, you will also see we sort of built on earlier gain. This was characteristic of the rally we saw last week, the chart of the s p 500 was again at the open, and stating another leg up...