CLOSED OUT TRADES ON THURSDAY
| Exited Positions Bullish Index | VTI | MARKET | 5/1/2025 | $274.60 | $290.59 | 5/15/2025 | $290.24 | $15.64 | 5.70% | OPEN | Yes | OPEN | TOTAL MKT INDEX | |
| Exited Positions Bullish Index | DDM | MARKET | 5/1/2025 | $84.65 | $90.96 | 5/15/2025 | $90.64 | $5.99 | 7.08% | OPEN | Yes | OPEN | DOW JONES 2X ETF | |
| Exited Positions Bullish Index | IWM | MARKET | 5/5/2025 | $198.10 | $208.13 | 5/15/2025 | $207.50 | $9.40 | 4.75% | OPEN | Yes | OPEN | RUSSELL BULL ETF | |
| Exited Positions Bearish Index | ZSL | MARKET | 5/5/2025 | $30.75 | $31.84 | 5/15/2025 | $32.75 | $2.00 | 6.50% | OPEN | YES | OPEN | 2X BEAR SILVER | |
| Exited Positions Bearish Index | GLL | MARKET | 5/5/2025 | $10.50 | $11.64 | 5/15/2025 | $11.90 | $1.40 | 13.33% | OPEN | YES | OPEN | 2X BEAR GOLD |
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P 500 Sees Further Upside But Nasdaq Gives Back Ground
After experiencing choppy trading during Wednesday’s session, stocks turned in another relatively lackluster performance during trading on Thursday. The major averages fluctuated over the course of the day before eventually closing mixed.
While the Nasdaq dipped 34.49 points or 0.2 percent to 19,112.32, the S&P 500 rose 24.35 points or 0.4 percent to 5,916.93 and the Dow climbed 271.69 points or 0.7 percent at 42,322.75.
With the upward move, the S&P 500 closed higher for the fourth straight session, reaching its highest closing level in well over two months.
The choppy trading on day came as traders digested an avalanche of U.S. economic data, including a Labor Department report showing producer prices unexpectedly decreased in the month of April.
The Labor Department said its producer price index for final demand fell by 0.5 percent in April following a revised unchanged reading in March.
Economists had expected producer prices to rise by 0.2 percent compared to the 0.4 percent decline originally reported for the previous month.
Another report released by the Commerce Department showed a slight increase by U.S. retail sales in the month of April.
The Commerce Department said retail sales crept up by 0.1 percent in April after surging by an upwardly revised 1.7 percent in March.
Economists had expected retail sales to inch up by 0.1 percent compared to the 1.4 percent jump originally reported for the previous month.
Excluding sales by motor vehicle and parts dealers, retail sales still edged up by 0.1 percent in April after climbing by 0.8 percent in March. Ex-auto sales were expected to rise by 0.3 percent.
Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve released a report on showing industrial production in the U.S. came in unchanged in the month of April.
The Fed said industrial production was unchanged in April after falling by 0.3 percent in March. Economists had expected industrial production to rise by 0.2 percent.
While utilities output surged by 3.3 percent in April after plunging by 6.2 percent in March, manufacturing and mining output fell by 0.4 percent and 0.3 percent, respectively.
Sector News
Pharmaceutical stocks showed a strong move back to the upside following a recent slump, with the NYSE Arca Pharmaceutical Index surging by 2.6 percent after ending Wednesday’s trading at its lowest closing level in a month.
Significant strength was also visible among utility stocks, as reflected by the 2.4 percent jump by the Dow Jones Utility Average.
Gold, biotechnology and commercial real estate stocks also saw considerable strength, while oil service and airline stocks showed notable moves to the downside.
Other Markets
In overseas trading, stock markets across the Asia-Pacific region moved mostly lower during trading on Thursday. Japan’s Nikkei 225 Index slumped by 1.0 percent, while China’s Shanghai Composite Index slid by 0.7 percent.
Meanwhile, the major European markets moved to the upside on the day. While the German DAX Index advanced by 0.7 percent, the U.K.’s FTSE 100 Index climbed by 0.6 percent and the French CAC 40 Index rose by 0.2 percent.
In the bond market, treasuries regained ground after trending lower over the past several sessions. As a result, the yield on the benchmark ten-year note, which moves opposite of its price, tumbled 7.3 basis points to 4.455 percent.
Looking Ahead
Trading on Friday may be impacted by reaction to the latest batch of U.S. economic data, including reports on consumer sentiment, import and export prices and housing starts.
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Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who this week condemned the attacks President Donald Trump and his allies have made against judges who are blocking the administration’s policies, failed to take historic precedent into her comments, according to Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz on Newsmax Friday.
“This is not new,” Dershowitz told Newsmax’s “The Record With Greta Van Susteren.” “Thomas Jefferson attacked judges appointed by John Adams much, much more ferociously. [Abraham] Lincoln attacked judges, indeed, suspended the writ of habeas corpus. Franklin Delano Roosevelt intimidated judges, threatened that he would pack the court, and that resulted in the switch in time that saved nine.”
Jackson, speaking at a judges’ conference in Puerto Rico Thursday, said that the attacks against judges are “not random” but are designed to “intimidate those of us who serve in this critical capacity,” reported Politico.
She also called the threats from the administration “attacks on our democracy, on our system of government,” and said they “ultimately risk undermining our Constitution and the rule of law.”
But Dershowitz told host Greta Van Susteren that Jackson has “no credibility unless she puts her criticisms in historical context” and goes after Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., for his comments about the judiciary or after other judges.
“Arguments between the judiciary and the executive are as old as our nation,” Dershowitz said.
Dershowitz acknowledged that he also says “rotten things about judges,” adding he’ll “continue to do so as long as judges do rotten things and don’t obey the Constitution.”
Judges are not above the law, he continued.
“The judge who sat on the disgraceful New York trial of Donald Trump for doing something that wasn’t even illegal deserves condemnation,” Dershowitz said, referring to Trump’s records case.
“The judge in D.C., who didn’t recuse himself, notwithstanding the fact that his daughter is deeply involved in deportation — these judges deserve to be criticized. I will continue to criticize them, as I have in my 60-year career.”
Judges, he added, “deserve acceptance based only on the quality of their opinions, not on the fact that they’re wearing robes.”
Dershowitz also argued that lawyers who won’t fight against judges are “cowards” who are afraid on behalf of their clients.
“I have been in courtrooms where judges have done horrible things, and the lawyers whispered to me, ‘Oh, my God, I wish I had the guts to stand up and tell him what I think,’” he said. “But judges take it out on lawyers who don’t treat them with the kind of reverence that they want to be treated with. So I’m completely in favor of judges being subject to scrutiny and to criticism.”
Dershowitz also said that Trump’s convictions in New York will be appealed, even though a sentence wasn’t handed down, and he believes it will ultimately reach the Supreme Court.
“He gave a sentence that was a nonsentence, but it’s enough to end the case and allow him to appeal,” said Dershowitz of New York Judge Juan Merchan. “The court may say, ‘Wait a minute. There was no sentence, so we have no jurisdiction.’
“I don’t think they’re going to do that. I think they’re going to handle the appeal. I think they’re going to reverse the conviction. And if they don’t reverse the conviction, a higher court will. This is the weakest case in my 60 years of practicing law that I have ever seen.”
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DISNEY IS AS GUILTY AS ABC – ABC NEEDS TO BE SOLD – PERHAPS TO THE DEMOCRATS OR PERHAPS COMMUNIST CHINA
FCC chair Brendan Carr sent a letter to Disney CEO Robert Iger stating, “Numerous reports indicate that Disney’s leadership went all in on invidious forms of D.E.I. discrimination a few years ago and did so in a manner that infected many aspects of your company’s decisions.”
ABC News does not fall under the FCC’s purview, but ABC’s eight-owned and operated stations are, and it wants to review whether they have violated any FCC equal employment opportunity regulations.
In addition, the FCC will also look at ABC’s policy that at least 50 percent of characters in TV pilots be from underrepresented groups.
For its part, Disney, in a statement, said, “We are reviewing the Federal Communications Commission’s letter, and we look forward to engaging with the commission to answer its questions.”
This is familiar territory for ABC News, which has already come under scrutiny from President Donald Trump. Last December, the news division settled its lawsuit with the president for $15 million over comments that anchor George Stephanopoulos made on a March 10, 2024 edition of his Sunday show, This Week.
As part of the settlement, the network included an editor’s note in the online article accompanying the broadcast, which stated: “ABC News and George Stephanopoulos regret statements regarding President Donald J. Trump made during an interview by George Stephanopoulos with Rep. Nancy Mace.”
The Associated Press reports that Disney has altered some of its D.E.I. positions in recent months. For example, it has changed the language at the beginning of some of its movies from “negative depictions and/or mistreatment of peoples or culture” to “this program is presented as originally created and may contain stereotypes or negative depictions.”
It joins NBCUniversal and Paramount Global as media companies with ties to news operations receiving the FCC treatment since the beginning of the second term of the Donald Trump administration.
The FCC does not have direct jurisdiction over NBCUniversal properties. Still, the news division could be affected by the outcome of the investigation due to its parent company, Comcast, cable and high-speed internet business, as they fall under the regulatory oversight umbrella of the FCC.
NBCUniversal is also expected to finalize the spinning off of its cable units into a separate company in the next few months, which will require government approval.
Meanwhile, Paramount Global is in the final stages of its merger with Skydance Media and needs government approval, too. On top of that, CBS News’ Sunday night newsmagazine, 60 Minutes, is facing a $20 billion lawsuit brought on by the president, who alleges the news network engaged in “deceitful” editing of a 60 Minutes interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris.
Carr made an official request for the unedited interview transcript, leading the network to publicly release the transcript and video footage of the interview on its website.
WARNER DISCOVERY IS AS GUILTY AS CNN – CNN NEEDS TO BE SOLD – PERHAPS TO THE DEMOCRATS OR PERHAPS COMMUNIST CHINA
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