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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Closing Bell: A win that felt too quiet (BRK-A, BAC, CCL, SNDK, SLM, WLP)]]></title><link>http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/06/18/closing-bell-a-win-that-felt-too-quiet-brk-a-bac-ccl-sndk/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/06/18/closing-bell-a-win-that-felt-too-quiet-brk-a-bac-ccl-sndk/</guid><comments>http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/06/18/closing-bell-a-win-that-felt-too-quiet-brk-a-bac-ccl-sndk/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/category/brk-a/" rel="tag">Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A)</a>, <a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/category/bac/" rel="tag">Bank of America (BAC)</a>, <a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/category/ccl/" rel="tag">Carnival Corp (CCL)</a>, <a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/category/slm/" rel="tag">SLM Corp (SLM)</a>, <a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/category/sndk/" rel="tag">SanDisk Corp (SNDK)</a></p><img hspace="4" border="1" align="right" vspace="4" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.bloggingstocks.com/media/2007/08/bell-black-white.jpg" />Today was one of those low news flow days where you never had any real solid feel for where the market would close until the very end of the session. We have seen too many rallies dashed by closing imbalances at the end of the day when there was thin volume. <br /><br />Some Philly Fed data helped hold the market, and that was on the heels of the <a href="http://247wallst.com/2009/06/18/green-shoots-in-weekly-jobs-data-sort-of/">largest drop in continuing jobless claims</a> since 2001. Some of the agriculture stocks <a href="http://247wallst.com/2009/06/18/giving-ag-potash-and-fertilizers-a-second-chance-mon-pot-mos-ipi-agu-cf-moo/">staged a small comeback</a> after yesterday's huge losses. <br /><br />Here were the unofficial closing bell levels:<br /><br />Dow 	8,554.77 	+57.59 (0.68%) <br />S&amp;P 500 	918.34 	+7.63 (0.84%) <br />Nasdaq 	1,807.72 	-0.34 (-0.02%)<br /><br /><a href="http://247wallst.com/2009/06/18/top-analyst-upgrades-anf-kof-htz-hew-ing-lnc-vz/">Top Analyst Upgrades</a><br /><a href="http://247wallst.com/2009/06/18/top-analyst-downgrades-t-adp-gntx-har-jci-payx-yrcw/">Top Analyst Downgrades</a><p><a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/06/18/closing-bell-a-win-that-felt-too-quiet-brk-a-bac-ccl-sndk/" rel="bookmark">Continue reading <em>Closing Bell: A win that felt too quiet (BRK-A, BAC, CCL, SNDK, SLM, WLP)</em></a></p><p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"><a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/06/18/closing-bell-a-win-that-felt-too-quiet-brk-a-bac-ccl-sndk/">Closing Bell: A win that felt too quiet (BRK-A, BAC, CCL, SNDK, SLM, WLP)</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com">BloggingStocks</a> on Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:00:00 EST.  Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.</p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/06/18/closing-bell-a-win-that-felt-too-quiet-brk-a-bac-ccl-sndk/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/forward/19071568/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/06/18/closing-bell-a-win-that-felt-too-quiet-brk-a-bac-ccl-sndk/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>]]></description><category>carnival</category><category>cruiseships</category><category>department of education</category><category>DepartmentOfEducation</category><category>sandisk</category><category>WLP</category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jon Ogg]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:00:00 EST</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
