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Stock Indices Close Near The Lows for the Week

Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets Feb 27, 2009 - 11:34 PM GMT

By: Harry_Boxer

Stock-Markets The indices had a very volatile session, swinging back and forth at least 12 times, failing on several occasions to breakout to the upside, but also holding early morning support lows for most of the day. But, near the end of the day they came down near the session lows and closed in a very negative fashion, particularly on the S&P 500, which closed right at the morning spike lows around 735 and just pennies off the low.


Net on the day the Dow was down 119, the S&P 500 down 17 3/4, and the Nasdaq 100 more than 10. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index (SOXX) fell 2.47.

The day started out with a sharp move down, and as indicated they swung back and forth all day in a range of about 20 points on the Nasdaq 100 and 15 points on the S&P 500. But at the end they spiked down near the session lows on the S&P 500 and just above them on the Nasdaq 100.

The ugly action was led by the financials, which were sharply lower. Wells Fargo (WFC) dropped 2.30 to 12.10, Bank of America (BAC) 1.37 to 3.95, and Citigroup (C) fell 96 cents to 1.50 on 865 million shares. Morgan Stanley (MS) at 19.54 was down 1.79, and Hartford Financial Services (HIG) at 6.10 was down 1.06.

SunPower (SPWR) was down 1.68 to 27.89 in a very weak solar sector, and American Pasta (AIPC) gave back 1.19 to 30.69 today.

On the plus side, Amazon (AMZN) had a very good day, up 2.45 to 64.79. The agriculture stocks were strong, with Mosaic (MOS) up 3.39 and CF Holdings (CF) up 1.58. However, Potash (POT), which had been up as much as 4 points earlier, dropped back to 83.97, up just 13 cents at the close.

Among the ultra ETFs, the Ultra Oil & Gas ProShares (DIG) was down 1.05 today, the Direxion Large Cap Bull 3X Shares (BGU) 1.31, and the FAS 91 cents in the weak financial sector.

On the plus side, the Direxion Financial Bear 3x Shares (FAZ) was up 7.43, Direxion Large Cap Bear 3X Shares (BGZ) 4.50 and SOS 1.96.

Stepping back and reviewing the hourly chart patterns, the indices gapped lower and stayed down all day. Despite rallying back to near unchanged on the session on a couple occasions, they were not able to punch through and closed weakly at the lows for the week and for the entire three week decline since the high earlier this month.

Good trading!

Harry

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