July 9 - In the relatively few economic reports released this week, markets were reminded that the economic recovery is still not quite in sight, despite the better tone in the second quarter relative to the recent past.
July 7 - S&P's Chief Equity Technical Strategist Mark Arbeter notes that the stock market has drifted down towards the lower part of a price range than it has been in the past couple of months, so S&P believes we are at a key point in time in price.
July 6 - Led by a 29.9% year-to-date increase in the S&P GSCI Industrial Metals Index on the back of a June gain of 6.28%, the S&P GSCI gained 0.57% on the month to end the first half of 2009 with a year-to-date increase of 6.55%.
June 30 - S&P's Chief Equity Technical Strategist Mark Arbeter notes that the U.S. dollar is close to breaking down, while gold prices are close to breaking out.
June 26 - At this week’s Investment Policy Committee meeting, we finalized our investment outlook for the 2nd-half of 2009, as well as updated our S&P 500 price target.
June 24 - S&P Equity analyst Stuart Plesser notes that MasterCard Inc. (MA) is a leading global payment solutions company that provides a variety of services in support of the credit, debit and related payment programs of about 25,000 financial institutions.
June 23 - S&P's Chief Equity Technical Strategist Mark Arbeter notes that the 10 year treasury yield has jumped about 200 basis points since December to a recent high of 4%.
June 19 - Through June 12, the S&P 500 climbed in 12 of the prior 14 weeks, rose 40% from its March 9 low, and recovered 30% of what it lost in the 2007-09 bear market.
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