04/21/08 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 week loss -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) since 09/19/05 DJIA +2272

Largest five week gain since we started measuring Sept 2005.

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

Apr 22 Existing Home Sales Mar - 4.90M 5.03M -
Apr 22 Bank of Canada Rate Announcement
Apr 22 5 yr TIPS auction
Apr 23 2 yr note auction
Apr 23 Crude Inventories 04/19 - NA -2356K -
Apr 24 5 yr note auction
Apr 24 Durable Orders Mar - -0.5% -1.7% -
Apr 24 Initial Claims 04/19 - 375K 372K -
Apr 24 New Home Sales Mar - 585K 590K -
Apr 25 Mich Sentiment-Rev. Apr - 63.2 63.2 -

Quarterly Reporting

Apr 21 B of A; Texas Instruments
Apr 22 AT&T; DuPont; McDonalds; UAL; Yahoo; YUM Brands
Apr 23 Amazon; Ambac; Apple; Boeing; Delta; Northwest; Pulte; Qualcomm; Ryder; UPS
Apr 24 3M; Coca Cola; Conoco Phillips; Credit Suisse; Microsoft; Motorola; Pepsico
Apr 25 Honda

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