Wall Street Greek: Stocks Friday: Syria Deal Helps but Retail Sales is Pivotal

After yesterday’s selloff, stocks are getting an early lift this morning from positive developments in Syria and also speculation about OPEC/non-OPEC coordination. Given the late great concern about the economy expressed via stock market decline over the last month and a half, today’s Retail Sales data is still pivotal for direction. If the data is well above economists’ expectations, stocks should benefit greatly. If the data is well below economists’ expectations, look for capitulation in equities to a new low mark. And if we’re about around expectations today, then stocks should continue their range bound meandering but toward the upper bound of the range. See the full report on stocks for Friday here.

Security Sector	02-11-16
SPDR S&P 500 (NYSE: SPY)	-1.3%
SPDR Dow Jones (NYSE: DIA)	-1.6%
PowerShares QQQ (Nasdaq: QQQ)	-0.1%
iShares Russell 2000 (NYSE: IWM)	-1.1%
Vanguard Total Stock Market (NYSE: VTI)	-1.2%
Financial Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: XLF)	-3.1%
Technology Select Sector SPDR (Nasdaq: XLK)	-0.3%
Energy Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: XLE)	-0.4%
Health Care Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: XLV)	-1.6%
Consumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: XLY)	-0.1%
Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: XLP)	-0.8%
Utilities Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: XLU)	-1.8%
Materials Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: XLB)	-2.2%
Industrial Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: XLI)	-2.0%
iPath S&P 500 VIX ST Futures (NYSE: VXX)	+6.1%
SPDR Gold Trust (NYSE: GLD)	+4.0%
United States Oil (NYSE: USO)	+0.4%

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