Good and Bad For The Week
Good:
- Bulls showed up and defended longer term support (200 DMA)
- Crude oil plunged 13% in the past two weeks. Good because it lowers costs and bad because it signals weaker demand
Bad:
- China has to interfere in markets to stop them from going down
- Greece remains in limbo. Another deadline set for Sunday. Third week in a row we have a big news event over the weekend from Greece
- The PMI Services Index slowed in June to 54.8, missing estimates for 55.1
- The ISM service index held steady at 56.0, matching estimates for 56.0
- Jobless claims rose 297k, missing estimates for 276k
- Crude oil plunged 13% in the past two weeks. Good because it lowers costs and bad because it signals weaker demand
- Technical “glitches” surged last week. United Airlines flts were grounded, the NYSE shut down, WSJ.com was offline, and TD Ameritrade had ‘widespread’ problems executing orders