Ukraine Fears Were a Stock Market Buying Opportunity

By: PhilStockWorld

Courtesy of Doug Short: Today, as far as the world markets were concerned, the Crisis in Ukraine evaporated, and yesterday’s anxieties, in retrospect, were a buying opportunity. The EURO STOXX 50, which plunged 3.02% on Monday, rose 3.02% today. The S&P 500 surged at the opening bell and drifted to its 1.65% intraday high about 15 minutes before the close. A bit of selling trimmed the gain for the day to 1.53%, the biggest one-day advance for the index since December 18th. And of course today’s close set another record high.

With the Ukrainian Crisis now on the backburner, the market will probably turn its attention to Friday’s employment report, which will come into focus with tomorrow’s ADP data.

The yield on the 10-year note closed at 2.70%, up 10 bps from Monday’s close. The interim high was 3.04% at the end of 2013.

Here is a snapshot of the week so far.

Volume on today’s rally was a tad higher than on yesterday’s selling, but it remained below its 50-day moving average.

The S&P 500 is now up 1.38% for 2014.

Here is a longer perspective, starting with the all-time high prior to the Great Recession.

For a better sense of how these declines figure into a larger historical context, here’s a long-term view of secular bull and bear markets in the S&P Composite since 1871.

- Phil

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Philip R. Davis is a founder of Phil's Stock World (www.philstockworld.com), a stock and options trading site that teaches the art of options trading to newcomers and devises advanced strategies for expert traders. Mr. Davis is a serial entrepreneur, having founded software company Accu-Title, a real estate title insurance software solution, and is also the President of the Delphi Consulting Corp., an M&A consulting firm that helps large and small companies obtain funding and close deals. He was also the founder of Accu-Search, a property data corporation that was sold to DataTrace in 2004 and Personality Plus, a precursor to eHarmony.com. Phil was a former editor of a UMass/Amherst humor magazine and it shows in his writing -- which is filled with colorful commentary along with very specific ideas on stock option purchases (Phil rarely holds actual stocks). Visit: Phil's Stock World (www.philstockworld.com)

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