Friday, December 22, 2023

SPX Closes Higher for Eight Straight Week...Consumer Staples, Basic Materials, Health Care Lead Sectors...Markets Closed Monday for Christmas Holiday...


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The SPX +7.88 closed higher on lighter volume heading into the 3-day Christmas Holiday weekend.  The SPX closed higher for the eighth straight week.  Markets are closed Monday for the Christmas Holiday and stocks resume trading on Tuesday Dec 26.  

BX, MU, COST, SHOP, ZION, RCL and IBM were among Friday’s leading advancers.

NKE -14.49, -11.83%, a negative EPS reaction after reporting Thursday AMC.


Mega caps GOOGL, MSFT rose, and META, AMZN, NVDA, AAPL, TSLA fell on Friday.


SPY up .95 at 473.65 on 67.1 million shares, below average volume, closed higher on lower volume.
VIX down .62 at 13.03
QQQ up .61 at 408.38

INTC, AMGN, MRK, WMT led the DJIA, 22 advancers, -6
ANSS, ALB, ALLE, BMY, INCY led the SPX, 371 advancers 
ANSS, MRNA, DLTR, BIIB led the NDX, 65 advancers.

The two-year trend term is sideways.  The one-year trend is up.

Up:  IWM, SPY, QQQ,
DownDIA,

Ten of eleven sectors were higher on Friday, led by XLP, XLB and XLV.

The SPY MFC green line turned up at 92.9 and is short-term bullish. 

Uptrend sectors:   XLC, XLK, XLF, XLY, XLI, XLRE, XLB, XLE, XLV,
Neutral sectors:  XLU, XLP,
Down trend sectors:

The 6-month intermediate trend is up.  The ten-day trend is up.

3-month Intermediate Term Market Trend: Up
3-day Short Term Market TrendSideways


65 of 100 NDX stocks closed higher on Friday.

91NDX stocks are above their 30 DMA:  FAST, LULU, DLTR, INTC, AEP, AMZN, CRWD, CTAS, ROST, TMUS, ASML, DXCM, KDP, KLAC, MELI, AMD, HON, QCOM, AAPL, AMAT, EA, KHC, LRCX, COST, CSGP, PCAR, PDD, WDAY, ZS, BKNG, DDOG, INTU, MAR, ADI, IDXX, ISRG, MCHP, ABNB, CSX, CTSH, NXPI, PYPL, TSLA, TXN, XEL, WBD, PANW, MRNA, ADSK, TEAM, REGN, AMGN, GILD, ILMN, ON, BIIB, WBA, AVGO, CMCSA, NFLX, MRVL, MU, TTD, ANSS, CDNS, FTNT, GEHC, GFS, SIRI, AZN, META, NVDA, VRTX, CSCO, ODFL, CCEP, CDW, DASH, MDB, ROP, SPLK, TTWO, BKR, FANG, GOOGL, MNST, MSFT, ADP, MDLZ, PEP,

NDX Stocks to Watch on Tuesday:
Moving Above 30 DMA = 3
ADP, MDLZ, PEP,


Moving Below 30 DMA = 1
SNPS,




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