Stock Market Commentary: Scrappy action

With a few minutes left to go it looks like bulls are creating demand at support. The Nasdaq is lingering around a convergence of horizontal resistance at 2,050 and rising channel support. However, supporting technicals are net negative; the last such change to net bullish was over 6-months ago.


The Dow is defending its 50-day MA but has struggled to make back early day gains. However, it's technicals are clinging to net bullish.


But the S&P has turned technical net negative


While the Russell 2000 is on course for the 200-day MA


Today looks like a pause in the downward trend.


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