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Bonds Dip As Stocks Rally

This morning, the 10 and 30 year U.S. Treasuries are declining lower. The fall in the bond market comes as stocks soar higher and fear in the marketplace fades. Traders can easily watch a chart of the iShares Barclays 20+ Yr Treasury Bond (ETF) (NYSEARCA:TLT), and the iShares Barclays 7-10 Year Treasury Bond Fund (NYSEARCA:IEF) and see that both equities are coming under selling pressure.

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When The Greenback Pops The Rally Stops

Nearly every trading day the U.S. Dollar Index futures (DX-M2) will pullback or decline when the index trades higher before the opening bell. As you may know, when the U.S. Dollar Index declines the major stock indexes will usually rally and trade higher. The opposite is true when the dollar rallies as the major stock will usually decline and trade lower. This afternoon, the U.S.

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Yields On The Move

Once again, bond yields on the 10 and 30 year U.S. Treasury Note are rising. Last week, the yields jumped sharply higher by more than 25 basis points on both the 10, and 30 year note. Higher rates will affect the important mortgage market and this could be problematic to the recent inflation rally.

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Apple Should Rule The World

Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL) is by far the largest stock by market capitalization in the world. The company is now valued at more than $500 billion and climbing. AAPL stock is now more valuable than the entire retail sector combined and that includes WalMart Stores Inc (NYSE:WMT). This company has taken over the world and they only have a handful of products.

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Does Debt Really Matter?

Has anyone looked at the U.S. debt lately? Well, the debt clock is now reading $15.5 trillion and climbing. By the end of 2012 U.S. debt should be over $16 trillion. Nobody in the media is talking about the national debt anymore. Perhaps these numbers do not really matter?

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All Eyes On The Bernank

What can the Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Ben Bernanke say this afternoon to help lift the stock markets? The major stock indexes are already trading higher in anticipation of some positive remarks by the central bank boss. The falling U.S. Dollar Index is helping the stock market today, however, the weaker dollar is not good for the people that are using dollars to purchase goods.

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Friday, September 30, 2011

The major indexes spent the entire session today in negative territory and saw the selling pick up during the last hour of trading.
Like in yesterday's session the Nasdaq Composite performed the worst finishing down 2.6% along with Semiconductor stocks down 3.4%.
The DJIA and SP 500 did not perform much better down 2.2% and 2.5%, respectively.

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Monday, September 26, 2011 Stock Market Performance

•Stocks bounced between gains and losses early in today's session but by the close the major indexes rose at least 1.4% each.
•SP 500 $SPX $SPY support/resistance moved up from 1,130 to 1,154 and 1,150 to 1,165.
•Support/resistance on the Nasdaq Composite $COMPX $QQQ rose to 2,483 from 2,470 and 2,536 from 2,483.
•Semiconductor Index $SOX $SMH lagged down 0.1%.

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Sunday, September 25, 2011 Stock Market Notes

Nasdaq Composite

$COMPX

Open gap down to 2,537

Consumer Discretionary

XLY

Open gap down to $36.29

Consumer Staples

XLP

Open gap down to $30.01

Energy

XLE

Open gap down to $62.83

Financials

XLF

Open gap down to $11.90

Health Care

XLV

Open gap down to $32.10

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Friday, September 23, 2011 Stock Market Performance

•After yesterday's brutal sell-off stocks rose with the indices gaining at least 0.4% today palpable to the prior session's losses.
•The broader SP 500 $SPX $SPY support level moved up slightly from 1,128 to 1,130 while resistance remains the same at 1,150.
•The support/resistance levels for the Nasdaq Composite $COMPX $QQQ moved higher from 2,381 to 2,470 and from 2,468 to 2,483.

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Thursday, September 22, 2011 Stock Market Performance

•Stocks declined heavy again with major indexes down at least 3.2% each today.
•SP 500 $SPX $SPY support/resistance moved down from 1,165 to 1,128 and 1,173 to 1,150.
•Nasdaq Composite $COMPX $QQQ support moved lower from 2,531 to 2,381 and resistance moved lower from 2,549 to 2,468.
•SP 500 and Nasdaq Composite are now both below their moving averages (21, 50, 200).

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Wednesday, September 21, 2011 Stock Market Performance

•Stock sold off hard with major indexes down at least 2% each.
•SP 500 $SPX $SPY support/resistance moved down from 1,199 to 1,165 and 1,204 to 1,173.
•Nasdaq Composite $COMPX $QQQ support moved lower from 2,580 to 2,531 (21 day moving average)-resistance moved lower from 2,598 to 2,549.
•SP 500 is once again below its moving averages (21, 50, 200).

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Stocks Rally, Gold Drops, Bonds Soar, Something Has To Give

The major stock indexes are surging higher this afternoon. The NASDAQ composite is leading the charge as the tech heavy index is trading higher by 2.17 percent. The strange thing about today is that everything is rallying higher. Bonds are soaring higher with the major stock indexes. Even the U.S. Dollar Index has rallied higher off of the morning lows.

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Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Even though the market gave up a lot of the early gains that came on low participation from investors we are raising the support/resistance levels on the DJIA (DIA) (12,480/12,570) and S&P 500 (SPY) (1,316/1,331)...The support/resistance levels on the Nasdaq Composite (QQQ) (2,782/2,799) is the same...The Semiconductor Index (SOX) underperformed the indexes and was down 0.3%-the Semi ETF SMH was d

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Tuesday, July 12, 2011

The Semiconductor Index (SOX) fared the worst in today's session with a decline of 2.9% and the Semiconductor Holders (SMH) ETF was down 3.1% on heavy volume-the SOX and SMH gapped down and have gaps between 402.66/405.48 and $33.64/$34.03, respectively-we are keeping our eyes on these levels as gap usually get filled in the near term...We are lowering the support/resistance levels on the DJIA (DI

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