A quiet week in US equities with the only excitent comming on Thursday with the Fed announcements – but then we settled back down and finished the week very close to last weel’s close and still at the top of the 1 SD

It was a relatively quiet week in the US equity markets with little change from where we were last week and still sitting at resistance near the upper 1 SD boundary of the uptrend channel US equities was not the only major asset class with little action:

Despite a pullback on Friday it was a bullish week in US equities with prices closing ~2.7% higher than last week’s close and still sitting at the upper 1 SD boundary of the uptrend channel with volatility at it’s lowese level in the

After last week’s pre-holiday fireworks the celebrations fizzed out after the holiday and US equities closed down ~1% lower than last week’s close: Another re-test of the 4300 level would not surprise me – but then it’s anyone’s guess where we might go from there.

After a pullback to test support at ~4300, US equities bounced to finish the week strongly, closing at the top  boundary of the 1 SD uptend channel: Should the trend continue there does not seem to be serious