Buffett Busts Rally, Stocks Higher, Goldman Upgraded

Good news finally emerged on the financial front with General Motors bankruptcy being discharged and Goldman Sachs obtaining a Bank of America upgrade resulting in stocks closing modestly higher on the day. However, the Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffett’s negative words busted the fledging rally. The DJIA advanced +4.76 to 8183.17, the Nasdaq climbed +5.38 to 1752.55 and the S&P 500 marched +3.12 points higher to 882.68.

Goldman Sachs
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– Shares surged 3.49% or $4.82 to $143.45/share after Bank of America lifted its share price estimates and upgraded the stock to buy.

Southwestern Energy
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– Advanced 4.80% or $1.70 to $37.09 after rallying natural gas futures lifted shares.

KB Home
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– Soared 9.31% or $1.06 to $12.44/share upon being upgraded by Credit Suisse.

Limited Brands
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– Fell 3.97% or 45 cents to $10.89/share after sales dropped 12% in June.

Oil gained 27 cents to $60.55, Gold eased higher $6.90 to $916.20 and the VIX fear index gave back 4.86% to 29.78.

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Market Snapshot

Dow

+4.76 8183.17

NASDAQ

+5.38 1752.55

S&P 500

+3.12 882.68

Economic
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ISM Service (Jun): Consensus: 46.0, Prior: 44.0

Crude Inventories (07/03): Consensus: NA, Prior: -3.66M

Consumer Credit (May): Consensus: -$7.5B, Prior: -$15.7B

Initial Claims (07/04): Consensus: NA, Prior: 614K

Wholesale Inventories (May): Consensus: -1.0%, Prior: -1.4%

Export Prices ex-ag. (Jun): Consensus: NA, Prior: 0.3%

Import Prices ex-oil (Jun): Consensus: NA, Prior: 0.2%

Trade Balance (May): Consensus: -$30.0B, Prior: -$29.2B

Mich Sentiment-Prel (Jul): Consensus: 71.0, Prior: 70.8