The struggle in some of the most market and economically sensitive segments on Tuesday hints that this normal period of volatility/weakness that started last month is set to resume.
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Stocks closed lower in the post Labor Day session as the short-term trend of stocks shows signs of rolling over following the normal positivity that surrounds the last long weekend of the summer. The S&P 500 Index ended with a loss of just over four-tenths of one percent, peeling back towards major moving averages at the 20 and 50-day at 4447 and 4472, respectively. Gap resistance between 4550 and 4575 remains threatening to cap the recent advance following the early August selloff. Momentum indicators are showing early signs of rolling over again with both MACD and RSI hovering around their middle lines. Traditionally, the normal positivity that surrounds the Labor day event supports stocks into the middle of September, or at least while portfolio managers are away from their desks for summer holidays. However, when this summer slumber comes to an end and investors focus on the business at hand, particularly ahead of the end of the quarter, volatility returns, taking equity prices down and setting them up for the best six months of the year for stocks that starts in October. The struggle in some of the most market and economically sensitive segments on Tuesday hints that this normal period of volatility/weakness that started last month is set to resume.
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