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Stocks were mixed on Wednesday, after flip flop day where the indices sold off early, but battled back to close nearly flat. The Dow, down 180 at the lows, lagged losing "only" 73-points, or 0.28%, while the S&P was down a point and a half, and the Nasdaq closed slightly positive.

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Stocks opened sharply higher on Monday, peaked in late morning trading, faded as the day went on, but managed to hold onto slight to modest gains into the close. The Dow ended the day up 60-points, off the +200 points it had accumulated late Monday morning. The Chinese stock market soared on the potential trade deal that seems to be getting closer, but now U.S. investors may be concerned that a deal may already be priced in.

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Stocks rallied on Friday, and as we talked about last week, Fridays have been consistently good this year, and I wonder if its all about investors afraid of there being some kind of trade deal made over the weekend, and not wanting want to miss out on a Monday rally? On the other hand Mondays (or Tues. if Mon. was a holiday) have performed poorly overall this year, and that would make sense with each weekend passing by without a trade deal. The Dow gained 181-points and once again the buying intensified ...

The optimism of trade talks between the U.S. and China Friday kept stocks in positive territory for the week. The new and improved dovish Fed kept investors happy in their Fed minutes Wednesday as they continue to keep their foot on the break with rate hikes while trade negotiations are getting worked out. Weakness followed on Thursday to threaten a loss in value for stocks on the week but the highly anticipated meeting on China Trade and the approving comments of progress from officials push indices ...

Stocks were lower on Thursday but a late push higher kept the bears from doing any real damage. The Dow was down 104-points and the losses near 0.4% in the indices yesterday basically took them to break-even on the week. We've seen some very good Fridays this year so today could be a good test to see if the bulls want to remain in charge, or if the bears have finally grown some teeth.

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