Today's Stock Market (1.27.2016)

Daily Analysis

Dow, Nasdaq and S&P by closing time (4:31pm ET)

• Overall market shifted consistently during the day, but ended with a sharp drop
• Dow was affected by the Federal Reserve statement, and it dropped 223 points after the Statement was release
• Nasdaq was consistently lower than yesterday

• Oil price rises compared to yesterday
• $31.97 per Barrel (4:04pm ET)

International Market

• Due to the drop in oil prices, the Saudi Arabian stock market is crashing and big investors are starting to bet against the Saudi Arabian currency

• European Euro and Canadian Dollar dropped down
• Japanese Yen, which was on a falling streak, rose 0.11% today
• Chinese Yuan rose 0.05%

Individual Analysis

• Communication sectors rose 1.87% in 3 month progress

• Apple (AAPL)'s stock dropped 6.57% from opening price even though they had the most profitable quarter in their history
• this is because their financial report also revealed that their growth has stopped

• McDonald's (MCD) is staying around their 52 week high, which was $121.90 per share. Today's day high was $121.62, and low was $119.83
• They are keeping up their stock price unlike the overall market

Today's Stock Market (1.26.2016)

Daily Analysis

Dow, Nasdaq, and S&P by closing time (5:16pm ET)

• Market recovers compared to yesterday

• Oil price slightly decreased but remained at $30
• $30.68 per barrel, (7:38pm ET)

International Economy

• China's stock market resumed free falling, and it plunged 6% even after the government pumped in huge amount of cash into market.

• World market overall is rising today except for Brazil and China's market

• E.U. Euro dropped 0.48%, and Japanese Yen also continued falling down
• Mexican peso is rising, but it is still very low

Individual analysis 

• Apple(AAPL) has released their financial report, and reports indicate that Apple had the most profitable quarter in American history.
• However, it was clearly visible that they managed to beat last year's record, and their growth rate has slowed down.

• Reports show that nearly half of U.S. households now have Amazon Prime, which is an premium membership offered by Amazon and requires $99 per year

• Although the oil price crashed, the oil production of U.S. did not decrease.

Today's stock market (1.25.2016)

Daily Analysis

Dow, Nasdaq, and S&P by closing time (4:14pm ET)

• Overall market is on downfall again
• Dow Jones, Nasdaq, and S&P all dropped
• Oil price drops to around $30
• Impact on various industries, including alternative energy

International economy

• Russia's market is one of the world's 10 worst performing emerging market of 2015
• other markets include Brazil, Ukraine, and Libiya
• E.U. Euro and Japanese Yen goes down, and British pound rises
• Due to fall of oil prices, economy of oil producing countries are crashing

Individual Analysis

• Due to cheap oil, industries and stocks related with alternative energy is crashing
• Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, says Electric Car industry will suffer
• The fall of oil prices seem to go for long time, so it is good for you to sell stocks related with oil industries/alternative energy industries
• communication industry didn't go through rough rise and falls for 3 months
• might consider investing in communication industry if you want something stable

Market 2016.1.22 (recorded on note)

Daily Analysis

• Oil skyrockets and recovers to $32
• Overall market: Rising
• Dow rises over 211 points

International economy

• Russia's currency hits lowest
• probably because of low oil cost
• Russia's economy depends on natural resources
• China's currency is also on downfall
• Investing in Chinese Stock market might be a good option
• because the price of stocks are low

Individual analysis

• CES: Samsung Electronics comes up with new products like TV
• might lead to rise of stock prices
• Amazon stock price started rising
• Overall Oil industry rised