Stronger than expected growth in the service sector coupled with tame inflation gave investors hope Tuesday that the broader economy won't follow manufacturing into a recession.
The national ISM services report came in at a much stronger-than-expected 58.9, and while third-quarter productivity was weaker than expected, tame wage growth in the report eased inflation fears and raised hope that the Fed may yet engineer a soft economic landing. A look at the week ahead for stocks - Feb. 17, 2007:: Investors return from a long four-day weekend to face earnings from a couple of scenario investors like, Wall Streets so-called Goldilocks economy of not too http://money.cnn.com/2007/02/16/markets/sunday_lookahead/itm?postversion=2007021708HOME |
The news was good enough for another day of modest gains for stocks. Worcester Telegram & Gazette News:: interest rates, developments that could easily trigger pullbacks on Wall Street. who grew accustomed to positive returns regardless of the sector, http://www.telegram.com/article/20070708/NEWS/707080433/1002HOME | Nightly Business Report . NBR Complete Transcript: 02-01-2007 | PBS:: Goldilocks Comes To Wall Street Wall Street is not big on fairy tales, with Were still (INAUDIBLE) shareholder return in the 16, 17 percent annually. http://www.pbs.org/nbr/site/onair/transcripts/070201d/HOME |
Comtech and Sycamore rose on their results.
MTM soared 61% on an IT services contract win.
Netlogic fell on a downgrade, while Priceline fell on news of more selling by Hutchison Whampoa.
Qualcomm gained 4% a day after the company made two acquisitions. PMC-Sierra was another rising on above-average volume.
The Nasdaq added 4 to 2452, the S&P 500 gained 5 to 1414, and the Dow rose 47 to 12,331. Volume declined to 2.76 billion shares on the NYSE, but rose to 2.08 billion on the Nasdaq. Advancers led 20-12 on the NYSE, and 16-15 on the Nasdaq. Upside volume was 62% on the NYSE, and 49% on the Nasdaq. New highs-new lows were 547-12 on the NYSE, and 212-38 on the Nasdaq.
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