Thursday, March 28, 2024

SPX Inches to All-time Closing High...Energy, Utilities, Real Estate Lead Sectors...EL Leads SPX after Upgrade...Happy Easter, Markets are Closed on Friday...


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Happy Easter everyone!  The financial markets are closed on Good Friday for the 3-day Easter Holiday weekend.


The SPX +5.86, 5254.35, a new all-time closing high, opened flat, traded in a range most of the day, rallied during the last 90 minutes of the day, to close slightly higher. 

EL +9.11, +6.28% led the SPX on an upgrade from neutral to Buy from B of A Securities today. 

NVDA +1.06, +0.12%, 903.56, opened slightly lower, reversed, traded in a positive range and closed slightly higher.


The PCE Index will be reported on Friday morning at 8:30 am ET.  Consensus estimate for Core PCE is M/M 0.3%, Y/Y 2.8%.

Jerome Powell is scheduled to participate in a Moderated Discussion at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Macroeconomics and Monetary Policy Conference, Friday at 11:30 am ET.

On Monday SOLV, a spinoff of MMM will be added to the S&P 500.


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


SPY down .10 at 523.07, on 96.2 million shares, above average volume, closed slightly lower on higher volume.
VIX up .23 at 13.01
QQQ down .82 at 444.01

MMM, DIS, VZ, INTC led the DJIA, 19 advancers, -8
EL, AES, BX, COF led the SPX, 364 advancers 
WBA, ADI FTNT, AEP led the NDX, 55 advancers

Up:  IWM, DIA,
DownSPY, QQQ,

Eight of eleven sectors were up on Thursday, led by XLE, XLU and XLRE

The SPY MFC green line turned up at 90.9 and is short-term bullish.

Uptrend sectors:  XLF, XLI, XLC, XLE, XLB, XLK, XLV, XLP, XLY,
Neutral sectors:  XLU, XLRE,
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 TrendUp a little


55 of 100 NDX stocks closed higher on Thursday.

65 NDX stocks are above their 30 DMA:  CTAS, NVDA, AMZN, DASH, NFLX, ORLY, AMAT, CDW, FAST, KLAC, PCAR, ABNB, CEG, LIN, QCOM, FANG, EXC, CPRT, MU, CSGP, MNST, BKR, AZN, DXCM, MCHP, MRNA, CMCSA, PYPL, MSFT, GOOGL, ISRG, ANSS, LRCX, MAR, PEP, ASML, CDNS, HON, KHC, ROP, TTD, ADSK, CSCO, AVGO, BKNG, AMGN, KDP, ADI, ADP, AEP, GEHC, GILD, ILMN, INTC, MRVL, NXPI, ROST, TXN, ODFL, PAYX, TMUS, TTWO, WBA, XEL,


NDX Stocks to Watch on Monday:
Moving Above 30 DMA = 6
ODFL, PAYX, TMUS, TTWO, WBA, XEL,


Moving Below 30 DMA = 5
CCEP, CHTR, CRWD, META, SNPS,



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