Archive for February 2012

In the Know Week of February 27 (URI, CAT, CMI)

Market Condition: Uptrend continues with constructive consolidation. ↑

This Issue looks at:  URI, CAT, CMI, along with a very brief review of older names.

General Market Outlook: The market’s uptrend continues, although after the last two weeks the market seems to have gone into a bit of a lull.  On the surface the market appears to perhaps gone into a stall, which many fear may rollover into a brief correction. Of course this may happen, however the objective data looking at the market does not support this view so far. There have not been any signs of institutional selling in the general indices, and leading stocks have been outperforming the market averages. For the week the NASDAQ rose 0.4%, the S&P 500 rose 0.3%, the Dow rose 0.3%.

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In the Know Week of February 13th (JAZZ, SWI)

Market Condition: Rally continues with some profit taking. ↑

General Market Outlook: The market’s rally continues despite having an ever so slightly down week across the board. After having a five week winning streak, the market slightly pulled in, the NASDAQ is leading  the market, it was down 0.1% for the week,  the S&P 500 was down 0.2% as it still struggles with the 1350 area, the DOW was down 0.5% for the week. Friday’s sell-off came in lesser volume indicating that institutional selling was not taking place.

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In The Know Week of 2/6/2012
(BIIB, CELG, ALXN, JAZZ, and more)

Market Condition: Uptrend becomes full blown rally ↑

This Issue has a brief review of: BIIB, CELG, ALXN, JAZZ, QCOR, ABMD, VPHM, GILD, AAPL, FFIV, RAZ, SWI, NUAN, INVN, TIBX, VMW, KORS, DG, MNST, LULU, TSCO, BWLD, LKQX, HIBB, MA, V, TCBI, SBNY, RYL, MTH, LEN, MHO, TOL, FAST, OC, LVS, SHFL, BYI

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