Monster Stock Rally, Banks Rescued, Morgan Stanley Soars

  • October 13, 2008
  • David Goodboy

A fiery surge pushed the DJIA to its greatest point gain of all time today. News from the G7 meeting in Washington, D.C. that the Central Banks will step in to support the world’s financial system triggered the rally across the board. These interventions include the U.S. buying stock in banks and the Euro Zone putting up 2.3 trillion of bank guarantees and cash to support the struggling system. The stock market seem to favor this news, resulting in a history making rally. The DJIA jumped +962.55 to 9413.74, the Nasdaq was up +194.74 to 1844.25 and the broad based S&P 500 broke back through the technically critical 1000 level by adding +105.04 to 1004.26.

Morgan Stanley
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United Health Group
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Boston Scientific
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Ford
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Gold fell $19.40 to $839.60, oil climbed $3.90 to $81.60 and the fear gauge VIX collapsed 21.40% to 54.98.

Market Snapshot

Dow

 +962.55 9413.7

NASDAQ

 +194.74 1844.25

S&P 500

 +105.04 1004.26

Economic
News

Treasury Budget (Sep): Consensus NA, Prior NA

Core PPI (Sep): Consensus 0.2%, Prior 0.2%

NY Empire State Index (Oct): Consensus -10.0%, Prior -7.4%

PPI (Sep): Consensus -0.3%, Prior -0.9%

Retail Sales (Sep): Consensus -0.4%, Prior -0.3%

Retail Sales ex-auto (Sep): Consensus 0.1%, Prior -0.7%

Business Inventories (Aug): Consensus 0.4%, Prior 1.1%

Crude Inventories (Oct 11): Consensus NA, Prior NA

Core CPI (Sep): Consensus 0.2%, Prior 0.2%

CPI (Sep): Consensus 0.1%, Prior -0.1%

Initial Claims (Oct 11): Consensus NA, Prior 478K

Net Foreign Purchases (Aug): Consensus NA, Prior NA

Capacity Utilization(Sep): Consensus 78.0%, Prior 78.7%

Industrial Production (Sep): Consensus -0.8%, Prior -1.1%

Philadelphia Fed (Oct): Consensus -5.0, Prior 3.8

Building Permits (Oct): Consensus 845K, Prior 854K

Housing Starts (Sep): Consensus 880K, Prior 895K

Mich Sentiment-Prel (Oct): Consensus 69.0, Prior 70.3

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