04/28/06 Market Influence & History

DJIA week ending: 09/23 -270 breaking key support, 09/30 +148, 10/07 -281, 10/14 -6, 10/21 -77. (5 week loss -486).

10/28 recovery begins +186, 11/04 +128, 11/11 +154, 11/18 +79, 11/25 +165, (5 week gain +712).

12/02 -53, 12/09 -99, 12/16 +99, 12/23 +8, 12/30 -168, (5 week loss -213).

01/06 +242 on a broadbased new year buy in, 01/13 +0, 01/20 -292, 01/27 +240, 02/03 -113. (5 week gain +77).

02/10 +125, 02/17 +196, 02/24 -52. 03/03 +6. 03/10 +61, (5 week gain +336).

03/17 +159, 03/24 +0, 03/31 -171, 04/07 +11, 04/14 +18 (5 week gain +17). 04/21 +211 (1 week gain +211) Since 09/23/05 DJIA +569.

Looking ahead at potential market influences: Apr 25 5 year TIPS auction, Consumer Confidence, Existing Home Sales. Apr 26 Durable Goods Orders, New Home Sales, EIA Inventory, 2 yr note auction, Fed Beige Book. Apr 27 Initial Claims, 5 yr note auction. Apr 28 Chain Deflator, GDP, Chicago PMI, Michigan Sentiment.

Just a taste of this weeks Q105 Earnings reports: MON: American Express, Caterpillar, Xerox, Yum Brands. TUE: Amazon.com, ATT, DuPont, Jetblue, Lockheed Martin, Lucent, Nissan, Northrop Grumman, Valero. WEN: ABN Amro, Centex, Conoco Phillips, Honda, Pepsico, Pulte Homes, Boeing.

THU: Beazer Homes, Bristol Myers Squibb, Countrywide Financial, Fujitsu, GlaxoSmithKline, Mazda, Microsoft, Ryder, Siemens, Sony, Sun Life Fin, Dow Chemical, Toshiba. FRI: Chevron, Volkswagen.

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