up steam, suggesting that a growing number of institutional investors were pushing the buy button. What may have kept everything in tow is theStocks took off today on the heels of strong retail sales numbers early in the morning, and after a Fed Beige Book, released at 2 pm Eastern, suggested that the economy is growing without much evidence of inflation. As we had been mentioning, the European Central Bank’s action last week triggered the current interest rate concerns. The news gave the Dow its highest one-day point gain so far for the year. Today’s close was, in fact, the exact opposite of yesterday, where the market indexes closed near their lows of the day. Looking closer on the day, volume picked up steam, suggesting that a growing number of institutional investors were pushing the buy button. What may have kept everything in tow is the suggested that the economy is growing without much evidence of inflation. As we had been mentioning, the European Central Bank’s action last week triggered the current interest rate concerns. The news gave the Dow its highest one-day point gain so far for the year. Today’s close was, in fact, the exact opposite of yesterday, where the market indexes closed near their lows of the day. Looking closer on the day, volume picked up steam, suggesting that a growing number of institutional investors were pushing the buy button. What may have kept everything in tow is theek triggered the current interest rate concerns. The news gave the Dow its highest one-day point gain so far for the year. Today’s close was, in fact, the exact opposite of yesterday, where the market indexes closed near their lows of the day. Looking closer on the day, volume picked up steam, suggesting that a growing number of institutional investors were pushing the buy button. What may have kept everything in tow is thein fact, the exact opposite of yesterday, where the market indexes closed near their lows of the day. Looking closer on the day, volume picked up steam, suggesting that a growing number of institutional investors were pushing the buy button. What may have kept everything in tow is theup steam, suggesting that a growing number of institutional investors were pushing the buy button. What may have kept everything in tow is the producer price index due out tomorrow. Technically, the Nasdaq, S & P 500, Mid Cap 400 and Small Cap 600 indexes have now rebounded off their rising 50-day moving averages.

Economic news continues to drive the market at this point, so Tomorrow morning, look for the very important producer price index, followed by the consumer price index on Friday morning, along with the industrial production capacity utilization report, the NY Empire State manufacturing report, and the preliminary Univ of Michigan consumer sentiment report.

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