In another sign of near-term weakness in the market, the S&P underwent its first back-to-back losses in nearly a month and the Dow declined for the sixth time in the past seven sessions, so things are showing signs of investors taking profits in many of the stocks that have led the strong rally this year.

I had pointed out that the VIX had very good support at around the 13 level which it closed slightly under on Friday. So this strong area finally held today and pushed the market lower as it went higher.

The huge rally for stocks lost momentum on Thursday as investors waited for the big jobs report that is coming at 8:30am today. The crypto market had more action, and bitcoin briefly broke to a new intraday record of $104,550 before pulling back to end slightly lower.

Once again, the newfound strength in the large technology leaders helped propel the S&P and Nasdaq to further new records yesterday. And for the first time this week, the Dow finally contributed to the upside with a large gain of 308 to 45,014 motivated by a huge earnings-related move in CRM, plus nice gains in AMZN, IBM, MSFT and NVDA and notice what group these ones belong to.

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The market started the new month of December with a day of trading similar to the earlier type of method that began the rally months ago, namely of the large technology stocks leading the way as the broader market lagged to a certain extent.

The month of November ended on Friday during the holiday-shortened Thanksgiving time period with a strong gain as the Dow gained 188 points to 44,910 led by advances in BA, SHW, GS and HON. It was the 47th record high close for this index.

In another astounding upside day, the Dow turned a 310 point morning loss into a closing gain of 123 to its best ever close at 44,860. It was finally led in this process by the old-time large technology stocks which have not done so great lately, bur finally caught the wind at their backs for a change, and this included AMZN, MSFT, AAPL plus CRM.

Stocks rose again on Monday, and were led by those that can benefit from the most from lower interest rates and a stronger economy leading the way.

After a huge runup in the days following the election, things came crashing down on Friday for the worst week since September and the fourth day in a row lower for the Nasdaq.

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The market did poorly yesterday, which continues the recent pattern of equities showing some resistance after their recent tremendous move higher, especially after the recent election.

The market ended yesterday in a mixed fashion, with the S&P once again failing around the 6015 while the Dow ended higher and the Nasdaq ended lower.

After five straight huge upside sessions, the market cooled off yesterday as the VIX got to a low level and the resistance over 6,000 in the S&P made itself known for the time being.

Once again, the major indices rose to start the new week, with the Dow, S&P and Nasdaq attaining their best ever levels, as the leaders once again were those that are seen as benefiting the most from the new President’s agenda, but drops for some high-profile Big Tech stocks kept indexes in check.

The market ended the best week in a year last Friday as the upside momentum created after the election continued for another day.

Once again, this upside rally continued for the third day yesterday with the S&P and Nasdaq achieving further new record highs once again.

In a stunning upside follow-through to Tuesday’s huge upside move, the Dow, S&P and Nasdaq all pushed to new all-time highs yesterday, as various parts of the market reacted to the final election results from the day before.

Finally, the market opened higher yesterday and was able to go the distance and ended on a very high note on the day of the election. Usually the market tended to come lower after a start of this type, so I assume that it anticipated what would happen today.

The nearly unanimous expectation is for the Federal Reserve to cut its main interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point on Thursday. But the weaker-than-expected jobs report wiped out the slim chance traders had been seeing of the Fed holding rates steady, according to data from CME Group.

The Fed began its rate-cutting program in September with a larger-than-usual cut of half a percentage point, as it turns more attention to keeping the job market solid instead of focusing on just driving inflation lower.