Weekly ETF Rewind: Choppy Consolidation?

Equities held flat last week with the S&P500 (SPY) finishing down -0.7%. Interestingly, more good economic news on Friday was not enough to push the market back higher as Energy and Materials pulled back fairly hard on dollar strength. Intermediate-term technical indications look set to roll over, although it still feels early to make that call as what we've seen so far could still be categorized as choppy consolidation.

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Meanwhile, Small-Cap Growth (PWT) and the Transports (IYT) look best positioned for at least a comeback bounce, though Dow Theorists may feel differently about that disparity....

Week Forty-Four of 2009 features a very busy economic calendar featuring Third-Quarter Gross Domestic Product on Thursday:

• Yahoo! - U.S. Economic Calendar
• Yahoo! - U.S. Earnings Calendar

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