Recent content by Fari Hamzei

Posted 08:10 CST Equity Index Update Tuesday August 8, 2006 FOMC DAY... The index markets continue to trade cautiously ahead of today's crucial FED announcement on interest rates and its policy intentions moving forward. The majority of the buyside continues to rant...

Posted 08:25 CST Equity Index Update Monday July 24, 2006 The index markets suffered another bout of selling during Friday's expiration as the Russell 2000, MidCap 400 and NDX led the way lower. All told, the session was highlighted by aggressive early selling that pushed the...

Posted 07:40 CST Equity Index Update Thursday July 20, 2006 Mr. Bernanke silenced critics with dovish testimony and forecasts of a perfect soft landing for the U.S. economy in the future...of course, what was he going to say? That the FED has raised too aggressively, the housing...

Posted 08:25 CST Equity Index Update Friday July 7, 2006 The index markets received the news the bulls were looking for this morning with the employment reading coming in at +121k verus consensus estimates of +175,000. Initially, the SPU surged to 1290, up +7.00 from the close...

Posted 07:50 CST Equity Index Update Wednesday July 5, 2006 The index markets continued to build upon the Bernanke led rally from last Thursday's FOMC statement during Monday's abbreviated trading session. Volume flows were very light with the 4th of July holiday keeping most...

Posted 08:35 CST Equity Index Update Thursday June 22, 2006 The index markets rallied sharply through the late morning into early afternoon trading hours yesterday, however, late session selling produced some questions as to the move's durability. On the plus side, a strong move...

Posted 07:20 CST Equity Index Update Monday June 19, 2006 The index markets gave back a significant portion of their outsized gains from Thursday's rally. The early tone was set from St. Louis Fed President Poole's hawkish tones on the inflation front. Accordingly, buyers never...

Posted 08:30 CST Equity Index Update Tuesday May 30, 2006 The index markets produced decent gains on shallow volume during Friday's pre-holiday session. Institutional activity was bordering on non-existent after 10:00cst. This morning, the indices are called to open lower with the...

Posted 10:05 CST Equity Index Update Wednesday May 24, 2006 "One minute you're up half-a-million in soybeans, the next they've repossessed your Bentley and your kids can't go to college." So was the tale for those long the index markets yesterday afternoon. For the second session in...

Chart 2 for 5/19/06 comment NASDAQ-100 Cash Index

Here is Chart 1 for 05/19/06 comment: SP-500 Cash Index

Posted 08:45 CST Equity Index Update Friday May 19, 2006 The index markets took another tumble yesterday as final hour selling grew aggressive and any resting buy orders were seemingly pulled on the institutional end, leading to a meltdown by the close of trading. However, after the...

Posted 08:45 CST Equity Index Update Friday May 19, 2006 The index markets took another tumble yesterday as final hour selling grew aggressive and any resting buy orders were seemingly pulled on the institutional end, leading to a meltdown by the close of trading. However, after the...

Posted 08:45 CST Equity Index Update Thursday May 18, 2006 The index markets were so thoroughly battered yesterday that there is nothing substantive I could possibly add in terms of color. The fact were simple as breadth and volume figures were in line with those of a "puke" in...

I need help from Baron to post them. I will email him tonight so he can post them for you tomorrow. Thanks for writing, Fari