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Wednesday, August 27, 2014

The Market On Wednesday

  Good morning. It is 72 degrees and sunny here in the Upper Hudson Valley. Rain is expected and it looks like we're in for another hot one. We see there was an American Jihadi killed in Syria. What can we say, we live and die by our choices right. Can't say we appreciate his choices, yet he is dead at an early age. There should be a point in people's minds when their ideology becomes so great like his did, that some little voice says - hey is this really the right thing to do, maybe take a step back. But unfortunately fundamentalists don't hear that voice.

  At 8:50 am ET futures are slightly higher and the price of oil per barrel is up. The market is poised to open higher.

  A few of the geopolitical messes in the world have simmered down slightly. Investors are pushing the indexes into new record territory and stocks are 'on fire'. As always whether or not this continues is unknown.

CNN: Stocks: 4 things to know before the open
The new Israel-Hamas ceasefire could give investors confidence Wednesday.

Asian markets all closed higher, except for the Hang Seng in Hong Kong, which dipped by 0.6%

1 comment:

Glynn Kalara said...

Sadly, the largely non-story of Gaza is made up as if its the central focus of humanity. Why? because Jew hatred trumps everything else in the World media these days and so Israel has been become humanities universal scapegoat. Consider this fact in 2 yrs. 200K Syrian civilians have been killed in that nasty little Arab on Arab Civil War. In the Congo since 2006 its estimated as many as 5 mil people have been killed in that Civil War. The list is long , so to put Israel vs. the Pals at the center of World attention is absurd and has to be characterized for what it really is total BULLSHIT.