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Market Tales: New Leaders, New Highs, More Selling

Published 04/04/2014, 01:47 AM
Updated 07/09/2023, 06:31 AM

Fighting out the red corner former champions: Netflix Inc (NASDAQ:NFLX), Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc (NYSE:CMG), Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN), Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA), Priceline.com Incorporated (NASDAQ:PCLN), Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB), SPDR S&P Biotech (XBI), PowerShares QQQ (NASDAQ:QQQ) - professional record; down 11% as a group since March .

Weighing out the blue corner the new leaders SPDR DJ Industrial Average (ARCA:DIA), Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT), Cisco Systems Inc (NASDAQ:CSCO), Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ), Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE:PG), International Business Machines (NYSE:IBM) - professional record; up 3.1% since March.

Red Corner  Former Leaders

Blue Corner - New Leaders

Some view this as plain simple rotation, and that might be the case.  However for the first time in a long time we are actually seeing follow through selling on the growth names.  In the past we saw initial selling and then they just went on to new highs, but recently they have sold off, bounced a little and were met with even more selling.  I for one have never been a big fan of a market that’s led by the old stogies because normally that does not last too long and eventually they will come under pressure as well with the overall market.

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