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The GMI remains at +6 and the tech stocks continue to lead this rally.
There were 291 new highs today in my universe of 4,000 stocks and only 12 new lows. This is the greatest ratio of new highs to new lows since I posted the GMI on April 26. By the way, a number of you have asked me how I compute the GMI–just check out my post in the archive on 4/26. 68% of the Nasdaq 100 stocks rose today, 69% of the S&P 500 stocks and 57% of the Dow 30. This is turning into a respectable rally, having lasted for 29 days (U-29).
I thought you might like to see what ETF’s (exchange traded funds)have performed best in this period. So, I used TC2005 to run a scan of ETF’s when the QQQQ advanced 5.2%. The winners are OIH (+10.5%, oil service); EWW (+9.5%, Mexico stocks); IGW (+9%, semiconductors); IYE (+8.8%, energy); PWT and XLE (+8.6%, energy) and IIH (+8.5%, internet). Clearly the oil and energy sectors were the place to be. Will they continue to lead this rally?
The biggest losers include EZA (-5%, South Africa); BHH (-4.5%, B2B internet); EWK (-2.8% Belgium) and EWJ (-1.6%, Japan). Other more traditional sector ETF’s that were weak include PPH, IXP, XLP and XLV. PPH (-1%) includes all of those wonderful pharmaceutical stocks (LLY, BMY, JNJ, WYE, SGP, MRK, VRX—these stocks declined 2.3-13.6% in this period) that the pundits have been recommending to conservative investors in difficult times (like these??) I told you weeks ago that JNJ looked sick.
By the way, the short term interest rate index I have been monitoring
cracked today. Speculators are betting less on interest rate hikes, at least today they did. (Click on chart to enlarge.)
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