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STOCK MARKET WATCH: Monday, 5 February 2024
STOCK MARKET WATCH: Monday, 5 February 2024
Previous SMW:
SMW for 2 February 2024
AT THE CLOSING BELL ON 2 February 2024
Dow Jones 38,654.42 +134.58 (0.35%)
S&P 500 4,958.61 +52.42 (1.07%)
Nasdaq 15,628.95 +267.31 (1.74%)
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Market Conditions During Trading Hours:
Google Finance
MarketWatch
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Stocktwits
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Currencies:
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Gold & Silver:
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Petroleum:
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DU Economics Group Contributor Megathreads:
Progree's Economic Statistics (with links!)
mahatmakanejeeves' Rail Safety Megathread
mahatmakanejeeves' Oil Train Safety Megathread
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Quote for the Day:
This is a great country, in no small part because it is the best country ever devised in which to be a public crank. Never has a nation so dedicated itself to the proposition that not only should people hold nutty ideas, but they should cultivate them, treasure them, shine them up, and put them right up there on the mantelpiece. This is still the best country ever in which to peddle complete public lunacy. In fact, it’s the only country to enshrine that right in its founding documents.
Charles P. Pierce. Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. © 2009.
This thread contains opinions and observations. Individuals may post their experiences, inferences and opinions on this thread. However, it should not be construed as advice. It is unethical (and probably illegal) for financial recommendations to be given here.
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Stock prices are so high that takeovers are rare unless it's a merger of behemoths. Instead they build value by laying off workers. Hasn't been this much overhead bloodshed since the late 1980s when greed was really, really good! 
Tech growth moved about 3% last week. Eastern european fund, one of two I can find, up almost 10% since Jan 1, 2024.
I like DIS for the long long term. DeathSentence will lose his war with the company. NKE can't figure out why consumers aren't buying.