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An early rally faded on Friday, but that selling was met with a late afternoon rally that took the indices closer to even, and in the case of the Nasdaq and small caps, pushed up for moderate gains. The Dow lost 22-points and the S&P 500 and Transportation Index were flat.

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The bulls had control during the last week of August. We saw mostly one way buying action for the first half followed by weaker action the last days of the month. New highs were hit in the stock indices with credit given to celebrated trade headlines but the counter negative trade headlines were unable to match the effect. Volume has been light as the summer wraps up but it seems the bears are the ones extended their vacations.

Both the C and S-fund were short of a 1% gain for the ...

The stocks market took a break from its 4-day rally and pulled back a bit on Thursday. The indices opened slightly lower but a mid-afternoon $200 billion China tariff comment from President Trump quickly pushed back the dip buying attempts. The Dow ended the day down a modest 138-points, and the losses were fairly broad, although nothing too serious.

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Stocks were making another round of new highs again yesterday as the Nasdaq led with a 1% gain, the S&P was up 0.57%, and small caps added 0.36%. The dollar was down, the I-fund was up, and bonds were slightly lower but basically flat. The Dow gained 61-points, about 42-points off the highs of the day.

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Tuesday was a snooze-fest as stocks traded in a very tight range, hardly straying from break-even. By the close the Dow had gained 14-points, the S&P added 1, and most of other the major stock indices traded up less than 0.2%, with only the Transportation Index being down - although bonds were down as well.

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