TSP Talk Blog

Stocks opened sharply higher on Thursday following some big earnings reports from Apple and Facebook after the bell on Wednesday, but it wasn't as easy as the final gains would indicate. You can see all of the green on the Dow, Nasdaq and S&P 500 charts below, but after gapping up at the open, the S&P 500 peaked and rolled over and never made it any further, and in the case of the Nasdaq and the Russell 2000 small caps, they closed with gains of less than half of the opening highs, so it ...