09/22/08 Market Influence & History

DJIA week beginning:

07/16 -55, 07/23 -594, 07/30 -83, 08/06 +59; 08/13 -160 (5 week loss -833)

08/20 +300, 08/27 -22, 09/03 -244, 09/10 +329, 09/17 +377 (5 week gain +740)

09/24 +77, 10/01 +171, 10/08 +27, 10/15 -572, 10/22 +293 (5 week loss -4)

10/29 -212, 11/05 -553, 11/12 +127, 11/19 -196, 11/26 +391 (5 weekloss -443)

12/03 +254, 12/10 -286, 12/17 +109, 12/24 -85 12/31 -566, (5 week loss -574)

01/07 -193, 01/14 -507, 01/21 +108; 01/28 +537; 02/04 -561 (5 week loss -616)

02/11 +166, 02/18 +33, 02/25 -115, 03/03 -370, 03/10 +56 (5 week loss -230)

03/17 +410; 03/24 -145; 03/31 +396; 04/07 -255; 04/14 +524 (5 week gain +930)

04/21 +43; 04/28 +166; 05/05 -312; 05/12 +240; 05/19 -496 (5 week loss -358)

05/26 +159; 06/02 -429; 06/09 +96; 06/16 -464; 06/23 -497 (5 week loss -1136)

06/30 -59; 07/07 -188; 07/14 +396; 07/21 -126; 07/28 -46 (5 week loss -23)

08/04 +408; 08/11 -75; 08/18 -31; 08/25 -88; 09/01 -323 (5 week loss -109)

09/08 +201; 09/15 -32 (2 week gain +169) since 09/19/05 DJIA +826

Looking ahead at potential market influences:
Date Event Period Est. Prior

Sep 24 Existing Home Sales Aug - 4.95M 5.00M -
Sep 24 Crude Inventories 09/20 - NA NA -
Sep 24 2 yr note auction
Sep 25 5 yr note auction
Sep 25 Durable Orders Aug - -0.7% 1.3% -
Sep 25 Initial Claims 09/20 - NA NA -
Sep 25 New Home Sales Aug - 520K 515K -
Sep 26 Chain Deflator-Final Q2 - 1.2% 1.2% -
Sep 26 GDP-Final Q2 - 3.4% 3.3% -
Sep 26 Mich Sentiment-Rev. Sep - 74.0 73.1 -

Quarterly Reporting

Sep 22 Autozone, Carmax
Sep 23 Lennar
Sep 24 Bed, Bath & Beyond
Sep 25 RIMM, RiteAid
Sep 26 KB Home

Comments

John C. Lee said…
Thanks...ridiculous system, isn't it?

All I can say is there is no free lunch and for every action there is a reaction. People at the top seemed to have forgotten the very basic principles. Another short-term fix for a long-term disaster.

Do you think the financials will continue their sell off on Monday? (provided that the gov't doesn't do something crazy over the weekend)