Dow rose 14, decliners over advancers 3-2 & NAZ fell 13. The Alerian MLP index rose 3+ to the 537s & the REIT index was up pennies in the 297s. Junk bond funds rebounded after recent selling & Treasuries saw buying. Oil fell
for a 3rd day on rising US supplies & as a stronger dollar
weighed on commodity prices. Gold fell to an 8-month
low, near a multi year lows, as equities surged to a record, crimping demand for the
precious metal as an alternative asset.
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Congress’s bipartisan passage of Obama's plan to arm & train Syrian rebels sets up a broader debate over the use of US military force when lawmakers return after the Nov election. Yesterday’s 78-22 Senate vote came a day after the House passed the measure, which now goes to Obama for his signature. When lawmakers return in mid-Nov for a post-election session, they plan a broader & likely far messier debate over the use of military force to combat Islamic State extremists. Senators in both parties said before yesterday’s vote that the promise to hold that debate persuaded them to support the more narrow authority now. The Syrian authorization is part of a package that funds the gov thru Dec, extends the Export-Import Bank’s charter through Jun 30 & provides $88M to help fight the spread of the Ebola virus in West Africa. Obama requested the Syria aid on Sep 10. He contends the US needs to help Syrian rebels combating the Sunni extremist group Islamic State, which has swept from Syria deep into Iraq with a campaign of terror that included the beheading of US journalists & a British aid worker. “The strong bipartisan support in Congress for this new training effort shows the world that Americans are united in confronting the threat” from Islamic State, Obama said. “As Americans, we do not give in to fear.” National Security Adviser Susan Rice said that it will take months to begin training Syrian rebels who the US will count on to open a 2nd front against Islamic State. The House added the Syria authorization measure to legislation funding the gov starting Oct 1, which avoids a repeat of last year’s 16-day partial gov shutdown. House lawmakers adopted the Syria measure & then passed the spending package on a bipartisan vote.
Congress Syria-Rebel Aid Vote Sets Up Fight Over Force
Exxon Mobil, a Dow stock & Dividend Aristocrat, said the US gov is giving it more time to shut its Russian Arctic well beyond the deadline for sanctions aimed at halting the $700M project. The company asked for an extension to allow it to continue performing shut-down work on the Universitetskaya-1 well in Russia's Kara Sea to make sure the well was safe before it’s temporarily abandoned. The company already had ceased drilling the offshore well after US sanctions set a Sep deadline for ending the work. “The U.S. Treasury Department, recognizing the complexity of the University-1 well and the sensitive Kara Sea arctic environment, has granted a license to Exxon Mobil and other U.S. contractors and persons involved to enable the safe and responsible winding down of operations related to this exploration well,” Exxon explained. Sanctions had prompted XOM & its partner OAO Rosneft to temporarily halt drilling at the well, which lies about 260 feet beneath the sea surface off Siberia’s northern coast. The well is aiming to tap a resource estimated to hold as much as 9B barrels of crude, worth $880B at current prices. The halt is a blow to Russian pres Putin’s quest to find a new generation of oil fields to replace declining output from some of the country’s Soviet-era reserves. The Russian oil industry is dependent on expertise & equipment from the US & Europe to penetrate crude reservoirs that are deeper, denser & more remote than anything they’ve attempted before. The disruption also is a setback for XOM as it seeks to lift production that touched a 4-year low in 2013 as the rate it’s replacing output with new discoveries tumbled to the lowest in half a decade. The stock went up 51¢. If you would like to learn more about XOM, click on this link:
club.ino.com/trend/analysis/stock/XOM?a_aid=CD3289&a_bid=6ae5b6f7
Exxon Gets U.S. Sanctions Extension to Shut Russian Arctic Well
General Motors will begin building a new “top-end, high-technology” sedan next year, as the largest US automaker’s luxury brand contends with declining sales. Production of the rear-wheel-drive model will start in Q4-2015 at the Detroit-Hamtramck plant. The sedan, which hasn’t been named yet, “adds to rather than replaces any model” in Cadillac’s lineup, the company said, without giving details of its features. US Cadillac sales slid 18% last month, including a 35% drop for the CTS sedan. The deliveries fell 4.7% this year thru Aug, amid gains of 2.8% for GM & 5.1% for the industry. Cadillac is “not capitalizing” enough on the “tremendous growth” in luxury-auto sales, marketing chief Uwe Ellinghaus said last month. GM said that the new Cadillac model is part of its previously announced $384M investment at the Detroit-Hamtramck factory. The automaker also said in Aug that it will move production of the Cadillac SRX sport utility vehicle to Spring Hill, Tennessee, from Mexico. The stock lost 11¢. If you would like to learn more about GM, click on this link:
club.ino.com/trend/analysis/stock/GM?a_aid=CD3289&a_bid=6ae5b6f7
GM to Add New ‘Top-End’ Cadillac Sedan as U.S. Sales Slump
This was a confusing day. Dow hit a new record high without strength in the rest of the market. Alibaba (BABA) had its whopper IPO & shot up 25 above the IPO price of 68. NAZ declined, probably because investors were selling other tech stocks to buy BABA. The market breadth was negative, always a bad sign. DC is confused about this war (whatever they call it) with ISIS. The pres has announced a lot of things we will not do, like sending troops there, but they are already there. Nothing like giving the bad guys time to build defenses. Now those guys in DC have to figure out how to pay for the fighting. There's only 1 way, increase the fiscal deficit. All the confusion coming from DC about what the US is going to do sends the wrong message to countries in the MidEast. The stock market doesn't like that & uncertainty is on the rise.
Dow Jones Industrials
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Congress’s bipartisan passage of Obama's plan to arm & train Syrian rebels sets up a broader debate over the use of US military force when lawmakers return after the Nov election. Yesterday’s 78-22 Senate vote came a day after the House passed the measure, which now goes to Obama for his signature. When lawmakers return in mid-Nov for a post-election session, they plan a broader & likely far messier debate over the use of military force to combat Islamic State extremists. Senators in both parties said before yesterday’s vote that the promise to hold that debate persuaded them to support the more narrow authority now. The Syrian authorization is part of a package that funds the gov thru Dec, extends the Export-Import Bank’s charter through Jun 30 & provides $88M to help fight the spread of the Ebola virus in West Africa. Obama requested the Syria aid on Sep 10. He contends the US needs to help Syrian rebels combating the Sunni extremist group Islamic State, which has swept from Syria deep into Iraq with a campaign of terror that included the beheading of US journalists & a British aid worker. “The strong bipartisan support in Congress for this new training effort shows the world that Americans are united in confronting the threat” from Islamic State, Obama said. “As Americans, we do not give in to fear.” National Security Adviser Susan Rice said that it will take months to begin training Syrian rebels who the US will count on to open a 2nd front against Islamic State. The House added the Syria authorization measure to legislation funding the gov starting Oct 1, which avoids a repeat of last year’s 16-day partial gov shutdown. House lawmakers adopted the Syria measure & then passed the spending package on a bipartisan vote.
Congress Syria-Rebel Aid Vote Sets Up Fight Over Force
Exxon Mobil, a Dow stock & Dividend Aristocrat, said the US gov is giving it more time to shut its Russian Arctic well beyond the deadline for sanctions aimed at halting the $700M project. The company asked for an extension to allow it to continue performing shut-down work on the Universitetskaya-1 well in Russia's Kara Sea to make sure the well was safe before it’s temporarily abandoned. The company already had ceased drilling the offshore well after US sanctions set a Sep deadline for ending the work. “The U.S. Treasury Department, recognizing the complexity of the University-1 well and the sensitive Kara Sea arctic environment, has granted a license to Exxon Mobil and other U.S. contractors and persons involved to enable the safe and responsible winding down of operations related to this exploration well,” Exxon explained. Sanctions had prompted XOM & its partner OAO Rosneft to temporarily halt drilling at the well, which lies about 260 feet beneath the sea surface off Siberia’s northern coast. The well is aiming to tap a resource estimated to hold as much as 9B barrels of crude, worth $880B at current prices. The halt is a blow to Russian pres Putin’s quest to find a new generation of oil fields to replace declining output from some of the country’s Soviet-era reserves. The Russian oil industry is dependent on expertise & equipment from the US & Europe to penetrate crude reservoirs that are deeper, denser & more remote than anything they’ve attempted before. The disruption also is a setback for XOM as it seeks to lift production that touched a 4-year low in 2013 as the rate it’s replacing output with new discoveries tumbled to the lowest in half a decade. The stock went up 51¢. If you would like to learn more about XOM, click on this link:
club.ino.com/trend/analysis/stock/XOM?a_aid=CD3289&a_bid=6ae5b6f7
Exxon Gets U.S. Sanctions Extension to Shut Russian Arctic Well
Exxon Mobil (XOM)
General Motors will begin building a new “top-end, high-technology” sedan next year, as the largest US automaker’s luxury brand contends with declining sales. Production of the rear-wheel-drive model will start in Q4-2015 at the Detroit-Hamtramck plant. The sedan, which hasn’t been named yet, “adds to rather than replaces any model” in Cadillac’s lineup, the company said, without giving details of its features. US Cadillac sales slid 18% last month, including a 35% drop for the CTS sedan. The deliveries fell 4.7% this year thru Aug, amid gains of 2.8% for GM & 5.1% for the industry. Cadillac is “not capitalizing” enough on the “tremendous growth” in luxury-auto sales, marketing chief Uwe Ellinghaus said last month. GM said that the new Cadillac model is part of its previously announced $384M investment at the Detroit-Hamtramck factory. The automaker also said in Aug that it will move production of the Cadillac SRX sport utility vehicle to Spring Hill, Tennessee, from Mexico. The stock lost 11¢. If you would like to learn more about GM, click on this link:
club.ino.com/trend/analysis/stock/GM?a_aid=CD3289&a_bid=6ae5b6f7
GM to Add New ‘Top-End’ Cadillac Sedan as U.S. Sales Slump
General Motors (GM)
This was a confusing day. Dow hit a new record high without strength in the rest of the market. Alibaba (BABA) had its whopper IPO & shot up 25 above the IPO price of 68. NAZ declined, probably because investors were selling other tech stocks to buy BABA. The market breadth was negative, always a bad sign. DC is confused about this war (whatever they call it) with ISIS. The pres has announced a lot of things we will not do, like sending troops there, but they are already there. Nothing like giving the bad guys time to build defenses. Now those guys in DC have to figure out how to pay for the fighting. There's only 1 way, increase the fiscal deficit. All the confusion coming from DC about what the US is going to do sends the wrong message to countries in the MidEast. The stock market doesn't like that & uncertainty is on the rise.
Dow Jones Industrials
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