The ECB Survey of Professional Forecasters cut their Eurozone 2014 GDP estimate to +0.8% from +1.0% in Aug and lowered their 2014 inflation forecast to +0.5% from +0.7% in Aug.

I wanted to see how the NASDAQ 100 stocks were doing so I used Barchart to sort the NASDAQ 100 Index stocks for the 5 that had the highest technical buy signals then used the Flipchart feature to review the stocks.

September E-mini S&Ps (ESU14 -0.35%) this morning are down -0.36% and European stocks are down -0.41% ahead of this morning's U.S. Aug non-farm payrolls.

September E-mini S&Ps (ESU14 +0.10%) this morning are up +0.12% and European stocks are up +0.37% after ThyssenKrupp AG, Germany's largest steelmaker, reported better-than-expected quarterly earnings.

Our Most Attractive and Most Dangerous stocks for August were made available to the public at midnight on Monday. July saw some strong performances from our picks. Most Attractive Large Cap stock PetSmart(PETM) gained 14%, and last month’s feature Neustar (NSR) was up 6%.

Wow, what a rally! Or, perhaps I should say Wow! What?, A rally??? It's a small distinction but clearly the fact that we are having a rally will come as a surprise to pretty much everybody – except the 2 or 3 people who run the machines that made the 62M in volume we limped into yesterday.