STOCK MARKET WATCH - Monday, 18 May 2020

[Tansy_Gold]

STOCK MARKET WATCH, Monday, 18 May 2020

Previous SMW:
SMW for 15 May 2020




AT THE CLOSING BELL ON: 15 May 2020


Dow Jones 23,685.42 +60.08 (0.25%)
S&P 500 2,863.70 +11.20 (0.39%)
Nasdaq 9,014.56 +70.84 (0.79%)

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Market Conditions During Trading Hours:

Google Finance
MarketWatch
Bloomberg
Stocktwits
Yahoo International
CNN Money Premarket

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Currencies:







Gold & Silver:



Petroleum:

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DU Economics Group Contributor Megathreads:

Progree's Economic Statistics (with links!)
mahatmakanejeeves' Rail Safety Megathread

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[Hugin]

1. Joygasm on the Dow this morning.

Celebrating the worst job numbers in 75 years, I guess.

The cynical side of me thinks they were draining it last week only to dump it all back in this morning to bang the markets.

The set-up over the weekend was obvious with all of the babble from Powell, the HHS guy, et al on all of the talking head shows.

[progree]

2. From this morning's new stories, it's because of a positive vaccine trial which in turn

spurs hope of a sooner rather than later complete opening up of the economy. Even without that, more and more states have been partly opening up, and not just red states.

As for the jobs reports - The big Friday May 8 jobs and unemployment rate report wasn't as bad as expected, according to the pre-release polling by Reuters and Marketplace of the economists that they poll, which is the explanation being given (in part) of why the market went up last week. Literally absolutely nobody who had been following the previous weeks of weekly unemployment claims reports was surprised by the May 8 jobs report of a 20.5 million job loss or a 14.7% unemployment rate, as reported on May 8, but rather pleasantly surprised..

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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/stock-market-news-live-may-17-2020-221852668.html