Monday, August 29, 2005

Stocks Finish Near Session Highs as Oil Reverses

Indices
S&P 500 1,212.28 +.60%
DJIA 10,463.05 +.63%
NASDAQ 2,137.65 +.80%
Russell 2000 655.32 +1.03%
DJ Wilshire 5000 12,096.19 +.63%
S&P Barra Growth 581.46 +.72%
S&P Barra Value 626.50 +.48%
Morgan Stanley Consumer 581.30 +.58%
Morgan Stanley Cyclical 731.90 +.24%
Morgan Stanley Technology 493.66 +.53%
Transports 3,685.21 +.49%
Utilities 402.91 +.75%
Put/Call 1.0 -15.25%
NYSE Arms .76 -54.77%
Volatility(VIX) 13.52 -1.46%
ISE Sentiment 137.00 -20.35%
US Dollar 88.20 +.39%
CRB 323.23 +1.93%

Futures Spot Prices
Crude Oil 67.76 +.83%
Unleaded Gasoline 208.60 +1.23%
Natural Gas 11.39 +1.24%
Heating Oil 191.45 +.30%
Gold 441.40 unch.
Base Metals 129.99 unch.
Copper 162.70 +.34%
10-year US Treasury Yield 4.16 -.46%

Leading Sectors
Oil Tankers +3.52%
Steel +2.63%
Biotech +1.38%

Lagging Sectors
Tobacco -.04%
Restaurants -.37%
Airlines -1.03%

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Afternoon Recommendations
Goldman Sachs:
- None of note

Afternoon/Evening Headlines
Bloomberg:
- Eastman Kodak is retaking the photo kiosk business at Walgreen from Fuji Photo Film, making it the choice of the three biggest US retailers of prints.
- Hurricane Katrina’s estimated cost for insurers such as Allstate Corp. was cut to $9 billion to $16 billion by storm modeler Eqecat after the storm veered away from New Orleans.
- Cultivation of opium poppies in Afghanistan, which are used to produce the narcotic heroin, decreased by 21% this year, the UN said.

AP:
- A Yemeni sheik convicted in NY of conspiring to fund terrorism by Hamas and al-Qaeda has been sent to a super-maximum security prison in Florence, Colorado, to serve his sentence.

Agence France-Presse:
- Israel will abandon more West Bank settlements in negotiations with the Palestinian Authority, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said today on Israel’s Channel 10 tv.
BOTTOM LINE: The Portfolio finished higher today on gains in my Internet, Retail, Semiconductor and Computer longs. I took profits in a few trading longs in the afternoon and added to my oil tanker shorts, thus leaving the Portfolio 75% net long. The tone of the market was modestly positive today as the advance/decline line finished higher, most sectors rose and volume was very light. Measures of investor anxiety were mostly lower into the close. Overall, today’s market action was very positive. However, volume was much lighter than I would have liked to have seen.

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