The Market Today

This was the Buy List’s best day of the year. In fact, we more than doubled our second-best day. We also doubled the S&P 500.
The S&P 500 rose 9.15 points to 1273.83, an increase of 0.72%. The 20 stocks of our Buy List rose 1.64%. For the year, we’re still trailing the market 2.05% to 1.49%.
Sixteen of our 20 stock went up. The big winner was Respironics (RESP) which was up 7.20%. Our other big winner was Varian Medical Services (VAR) which was up 5.01%.
Expeditors (EXPD) was also up big, jumping 3.58%. Golden West Financial (GDW) closed 3.66% higher.
Chipotle (CMG) closed at $44 a share, a nice 100% for its first day on the market.
General Motors (GM) dropped 3.35%. The stock is still about five dollars above its 52-week low.
The Oil Service Holders ETF (OIH) has a nice turnaround today and closed 0.60% higher.

Posted by on January 26th, 2006 at 4:17 pm


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