March 22, 2006 Stock Market Recap

The bulls showed their mettle today as they stepped up to buy after yesterday’s weak close. The S&P lifted off of the support of the top of its old trading range and the Nasdaq, which had a less impressive bounce, found support at its 50-day moving average. Somehow I get the feeling that we’ll just chop around these levels until after next week’s Fed meeting…

Here are charts of the Nasdaq and S&P 500: