Wednesday, August 24, 2005

Stocks Finish at Lows on Energy Concerns

Indices
S&P 500 1,209.59 -.66%
DJIA 10,434.87 -.81%
NASDAQ 2,128.91 -.39%
Russell 2000 655.01 -.07%
DJ Wilshire 5000 12,074.33 -.53%
S&P Barra Growth 579.15 -.64%
S&P Barra Value 626.18 -.67%
Morgan Stanley Consumer 578.72 -.81%
Morgan Stanley Cyclical 729.89 -.86%
Morgan Stanley Technology 492.96 -.75%
Transports 3,665.97 +.13%
Utilities 397.44 -.38%
Put/Call .91 -10.78%
NYSE Arms 1.37 +11.62%
Volatility(VIX) 14.17 +6.22%
ISE Sentiment 120.00 -38.14%
US Dollar 87.92 -.18%
CRB 320.02 +.77%

Futures Spot Prices
Crude Oil 67.75 +3.10%
Unleaded Gasoline 196.25 +5.62%
Natural Gas 10.00 +3.29%
Heating Oil 188.05 +3.36%
Gold 442.40 -.43%
Base Metals 129.98 -.75%
Copper 162.30 -1.22%
10-year US Treasury Yield 4.16% -.32%

Leading Sectors
Oil Tankers +4.24%
Oil Service +1.52%
Homebuilders +.86%

Lagging Sectors
Airlines -2.02%
Gold & Silver -2.11%
Steel -2.12%

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Afternoon Recommendations
Goldman Sachs:
- None of note

Afternoon/Evening Headlines
Bloomberg:
- Former WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers must serve his 25-year sentence in a Louisiana medium security prison instead of a low-security prison near his Mississippi home.
- The Federal Reserve Bank of New York invited 14 of the “major participants” in the credit-derivatives market to a meeting next month amid concern the $8.4 trillion industry is rife with trades lacking key paperwork.
- GM and Ford Motor’s debt were lowered to junk by Moody’s Investors Service following two quarters of losses at both companies’ North American auto operations.
- Johnson Controls will buy York International for $2.4 billion to double its heating-and-cooling systems business.
BOTTOM LINE: The Portfolio finished slightly lower today on losses in my Oil Tanker shorts and Retail longs. I added back my IWM and QQQQ shorts in the afternoon, thus leaving the Portfolio 50% net long. The tone of the market was modestly negative today as the advance/decline line finished lower, most sectors fell and volume was average. Measures of investor anxiety were mostly higher into the close. Overall, today’s market action was slightly negative.

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