Friday, September 2, 2011

Market recap...

Traders bailed out of stocks ahead of the long weekend, spooked by the no-new-jobs report. Cries for QE3 mount, but no risk-on trade ever took root. Banks were hit hard on news of FHFA suits over mortgage fraud. And Europe continues to percolate. Gold surged nearly $50, and Treasury yields plunged to historic closing lows. Only seven S&P stocks posted gains.  

Kind of disappointing that we fell back below key level of 1200 on the S&P 500.  Hopefully it was just reluctancy to hold over the long weekend and not the start of a new move back down.

Dow -253 to 11240
Nas -65 to 2480
S&P -30 to 1174


Monday is a Holiday.  Have a nice long weekend!!!

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