The Close

An uneventful trading day as markets sold off on the Fed minutes news but ended the day about where they were when the minutes hit. The DJIA closed -36, NAZ -16 and SPX -7.

Sectors in the green included steels, oils, airlines, defense, utils and defense while semis, homies, banks, real estate and metals lagged.

NYSE- 500 net losers;

NAZ-465 net losers;

NDX-30 GREEN;

OEX-45 GREEN;

IBD- 60 GREEN;

VIX- flat;

Up volume about .6X / Down volume;

Oil unch at $109;

Gold -7 at $919;

Markets are acting fairly well holding the 1360 line on the bad FED mins news. I am holding my SSO long into tomorrow.