The Senate passed a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package and investors cheered, sending both the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average to all-time highs.
The S&P 500 rose +0.10% and continues to trade above its 30-day moving average (a strongly bullish intermediate posture according to the Market Forecast indicator). Meanwhile, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose +0.46% jump, as old-line names benefitted from the infrastructure news and rising interest rates.
The NASDAQ Composite was the worst performer (-0.49%), but continues to trade above its rising 30 day moving average and has a strongly bullish posture.
The Russell 2000 rose 0.20% and it now joins the other stock market indices with a strongly bullish posture. Note that its 30 day moving average is still pointing lower at this moment.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average and Russell 2000 have “3 Green Arrows” signals; however, the trend of the Dow Jones looks vastly superior to the Russell 2000
All four major U.S. equity indices continue to have a golden cross on the 10/40 weekly moving average crossover chart.
Despite continuing to be in a strong intermediate trend, Real Estate was the worst sector performer today (likely due to rising interest rates). Financials and Technology both rose week-over-week on the Sector Selector rankings.
Elsewhere… Bitcoin continues to trade near two-month highs and has stayed above its rising 30 day moving average for the last couple weeks. U.S. Government bonds and High Yield bonds both fell; they are trading below their 30 day moving averages and have bearish intermediate postures. The 10 Year U.S. Treasury Yield rose for the sixth straight day(ending at 1.34%); importantly, it’s now above its 30 day moving average (first time since early June). Gold stabilized after three days of ugly selling and oil rose nicely today (+2.32%) with the infrastructure news; both commodities have bearish postures.
Our trade application example featured a bullish swing trade on Graphite Bio (GRPH) due to it now having a bullish Near-Term posture as it bounced off of a consolidation zone from the past couple weeks; like a lot of other CRISPR gene editing stocks, it may be benefiting from rumors of Moderna seeking buyout candidates in that space
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