Markets Rocket, Unemployment Sinks, Retailers Strong

  • November 5, 2009
  • David Goodboy

Waves of positive news swept stocks higher today. Sinking unemployment and positive words from Cisco Systems fueled the broad based rally. Additional optimistic data of retailers reporting gains for the second month in a row added fuel to the raging bull market today. The DJIA breaks 10,000 adding +203.82 to 10005.96, the Nasdaq +49.80 to 2105.32, and the broad based S&P 500 advanced +20.13 to 1066.63.

Children’s Place Retail Stores
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CVS Caremark
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Whole Foods
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Gibraltar Industries
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Gold added $2.20 to $1090.80, oil gave back 78 cents to $79.85 and the VIX fear index fell another 8.12% to 25.47 as fear slowly dissipates from the marketplace.

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Market Snapshot

Dow

 +203.82 10005.96

NASDAQ

 +49.80 2105.32

S&P 500

 +20.13 1066.63

Economic
News

Construction Spending (Sep): Consensus: -0.2%, Prior: 0.8%

ISM Index (Oct): Consensus: 53.0, Prior: 52.6

Pending Home Sales (Sep): Consensus: -0.1%, Prior: 6.4%

Factory Orders (Sep): Consensus: 0.9%, Prior: -0.8%

Auto Sales (Oct): Consensus: NA, Prior: NA

Truck Sales (Oct): Consensus: NA, Prior: NA

Challenger Job Cuts (Oct): Consensus: NA, Prior: -30.2%

ADP Employment Report (Oct): Consensus: -190K, Prior: -254K

ISM Service (Oct): Consensus: 51.5, Prior: 50.9

Crude Inventories (10/30): Consensus: NA, Prior: 0.78M

FOMC Rate Decision (11/14): Consensus: 0.25%, Prior: 0.25%

Productivity-Prel (Q3): Consensus: 6.5%, Prior: 6.6%

Initial Claims (10/31): Consensus: 520K, Prior: 530K

Continuing Claims (10/24): Consensus: 5750K, Prior: 5797K

Nonfarm Payrolls (Oct): Consensus: -1175K, Prior: -263K

Unemployment Rate (Oct): Consensus: 9.9%, Prior: 9.8%

Average Workweek (Oct): Consensus: 33.1, Prior: 33.0

Hourly Earnings (Oct): Consensus: 0.1%, Prior: 0.1%

Wholesale Inventories (Sep): Consensus: -1.0%, Prior: -1.3%

Consumer Credit (Sep): Consensus: -$10.3B, Prior: -$12.0B