Stock Market Update

[BRIEFING.COM] There hasn't been any shift in the market's temperament, which has shown some favoritism today for mega-cap stocks and small-cap stocks. That has been enough to keep the Nasdaq, S&P 500, and Russell 2000 above their unchanged lines since the start of trading.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average has deviated just a bit from that winning line, but its losses are negligible.

The S&P 500 came within a whisker of 6,100 in the opening portion of today's trading, but any momentum it had going up to that point faded away when it failed to clear that level. Accordingly, the indices have been marking time and distance since then without much excitement to report for their day's work.

Looking to Monday, the October Wholesale Inventories Report (prior -0.2%) is the only item on the economic calendar, which will be highlighted next week by the release of the November Consumer Price Index on Wednesday and the November Producer Price Index on Thursday.