Today's Stock Market (2016.04.22)

Daily Analysis

Dow, Nasdaq, and S&P by closing time (4:21pm ET)

Dow and Nasdaq throughout trading hours (4:46pm ET)

• Dow closed with 18003.75 points, which was 21.23 points more and 0.12% higher than yesterday's closure.

• NASDAQ closed with 4906.23 points, which was 39.66 points less and -0.8% lower than yesterday's closure.

• S&P500 closed with 2091.58 points, which was 0.1points more and 0% higher than yesterday's closure.

• Oil price rose higher than $43 per barrel

• $43.74 per barrel (4:20pm ET)

U.S./International Market

• While Dow and S&P500 rose today due to increase in oil prices; energy index rose 1.33% today. 

• In contrast to Dow and S&P, NASDAQ continued to drop as technology sector goes into a slump. Technology index dropped 1.47%.

• Oil prices soared as the supply of crude oil seemed to decrease and the demand for oil started to retrieve balance with the supply. WTI crude oil prices soared 8% only in this week.

• European Market continued to decline from yesterday, especially in automobile industry. England's FTSE100 dropped 1.11%, French CAC40 dropped 0.29%, and German DAX dropped 0.6% compared to yesterday's closure.

• In Europe's automobile sector, which is one of the main reason of decline, Daimler AG stocks tumbled on diesel emission review, and other automobile companies like Volkswagen and PSA Peugeot also dropped in share prices.

• International gold prices tumbled as US Dollar went bullish. Gold prices dropped 1.6% than yesterday. Silver prices also dropped 1.1%.

Company Analysis

• Overall technology sector was doing poorly today.

• Google (GOOG) shares dropped 5.32% today.

• Microsoft (MSFT) shares dropped 7.17% today.

• On the contrast, energy and oil sector showed great performance today as oil price soared 8% this week

• Southwestern Energy (SWN) stocks rose 15% as their first quarter loss was much narrower than they expected.

• Murphy Oil Corp (MUR) also rose 6.42% as they show great performance and solid earnings.

Today's Stock Market (2016.04.20)

Daily Analysis

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

Dow and Nasdaq throughout trading hours (4:33pm ET)

• Dow closed with 18092.27 points, which was 0.24% higher than yesterday and highest since last year July.

• Nasdaq closed with 4948.13 points, which was 0.16% higher than yesterday.

• S&P500 closed with 2102.40 points, which was 0.07% higher than yesterday.

• Oil prices reached 2016 high, going over $43 per barrel

• $43.80 per barrel (6:26pm ET)

International/U.S. Markets

• The oil price, which hit its highest price of 2016, caused the market rise today. Crude oil prices increased after the U.S. inventory check showed that the increase in stock of crude oil was much smaller than expected; crude oil stocks increased 2100000 barrels, which was much lower than API's expectation of 3100000 barrels.

• International silver prices maintained its incline from yesterday, continuing to break the 11 month high since last year May. Silver prices has jumped 5% this week.

• Gold prices finished at $1254.4, which was $0.1 higher than yesterday's price.

• European market continued its incline for 4 days due to rising oils and bank stock shares. England's FTSE100 rose 0.08%, French CAC40 rose 0.56%, and German DAX rose 0.69%.

Corporate Analysis

• Coca-Cola (KO) shares plunged 4.79% as they released their quarter report, which indicated that their classic soft drink line was doing bad compared to other product lines.

• As oil price rose, oil stocks also experienced huge incline.

• Chesapeake Energy Corp (CHK) rose 4.9% today.

• Chevron (CVX) rose 1.18% today and rose 4.19% for the past five days.

Today's Stock Market (2016.03.25)-Market Holiday

Daily Analysis

• NYSE has closed today due to Good Friday.

• Oil continues to stay around $39 per barrel

• $39.46 per barrel (2016.03.24 end of the day)

International/U.S. Economy

• Saudi Aramco, the state oil company of Saudi Arabia, has recently announced a plan to buy the sprawling Port Arthur, Texas refinery. The facility is the largest refinery of U.S. and it can produce 600,000 barrels of oil per day.

• A group of New York millionaires are telling the governor and the state law makers to raise the tax for them and use it to help the poor. The group released an message that urged the passage of "1% plan for New York tax fairness".

• The terror on Brussel, Belgium has not only taken people's lives, but it also affected the European economy. Brussel was the center of political gravity of E.U., and its importance to E.U. is similar to that of Washington D.C. and U.S..

• Although the stock market is rebounding back, investors are still betting huge amount of money in gold. According to Bank of America Merrill Lynch, $13.4 billion was poured into gold assets for the past 11 weeks. This is the largest weekly inflow for gold since the economic crisis of 2009. 

• Gold is a safe asset which would maintain its value even during an economic crisis, and investors are still concerned about how the market was crashing early 2016.

Today's Stock Market (2016.03.07)

Daily Analysis

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

Dow and Nasdaq during trading hours (4:33pm ET)

• Dow and S&P closed slightly higher than yesterday, but Nasdaq closed lower than yesterday

• Throughout the day the market was very inconsistent; indexes faced an major crash slightly after the middle of the day, but it managed to recover back.

• Oil prices are continuing to recover; it reached more than $37 per barrel today.

• $37.81 per barrel (2:45pm ET)

International Market

• As overall stock markets including U.S. and China went unstable and oil prices continued plunging in 2016, gold, which is considered as a safe deposit, is rising. Gold has rose over 20% so far this year.

• Although Brazil is facing its worst economic crisis this year, their stock market is showing great progress among other international markets. Brazil's market index, Bovespa, has rose 14.1% so far this year. Not only Brazil, but its neighbor, Argentina, also has a great market. Argentina's market index has rose 14.7% so far this year.

• The Chinese government has set an economic growth target range of 6.5~7%. This is the first time since 1995 that Beijing has announced an economic growth target range. China's economic growth has decelerated, and its pace is slowest in 25 years.

Individual Analysis

• Tech stocks aren't doing well today; Netflix (NFLX) failed to continue its incline since last Friday and experienced a major crash that was more than 6%. Not only that, but both Amazon (AMZN) and Facebook (FB)'s stock also experienced a decline of 3%.

• Tesla (TSLA)'s stocks are finally rising back from the dead with oil prices going up. The company's stock experienced an 2.38% incline today (3:12pm ET), and it has experienced an rise of 7.37% for the last 5 days.

• As oil price continues to rise back, oil related companies are experiencing a huge incline in share prices. Chevron (CVX) has rose 2.57% (3:14pm ET) today, and it rose 8% for the past 5 days. Exxon Mobil (XOM) has rose 2.15% (3:16pm ET) today.

Today's market (2016.2.12)

Daily Analysis

Dow, Nasdaq, and S&P by closing time (5:14pm ET)

• Overall indexes rose today

• All three indexes were consistently inclining during trading hours today

• probably because of the rise in oil price today

• Crude oil prices spiked up to 12% today, reaching $29.44 per barrel

• yesterday the oil price hit $26.05 per barrel, which is the lowest price since May 2003

International Economy

• Not only U.S., but international stock market has sunk into bear market. The dropping oil price, threats of global recession and fall of big banks has caused this situation. Individual stock markets that have fallen during this week includes Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, and Japan.

• Japanese Stocks have fallen over 5% as foreign investors dumped risker assets. Not only Japan, but South Korean market has also declined, and this overall fall of Asian market follows the fall of U.S. and European Markets.

• China is on a massive gold buying spree. This is because Chinese investors have witnessed the recent fall of Chinese stock market, and they want something thats more stable than stocks.

Individual Analysis

• As oil price are staying cheap, Tesla Motors(TSLA) are having their worst year. Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, has personally lost $3 billion on paper due to the drop of stock price.

• Amazon has deployed new shipping robots in their next-generation warehouse. They are expecting that these new robots will prevent fiasco like last year's christmas when many orders didn't make it on time.