Tuesday, November 15 Market Recap

TUESDAY (DJIA +17) It was a choppy day in the markets as stocks were under pressure early on from rising yields in Spain & Italy after poor debt auctions. But friendly data from U.S. retail sales (+.5% month-over-month), a decline of Oct. Producer Price Index (-.3% month-over-month), and an increase in the Empire index during Nov. helped provide a broad lift. Share volume has been anemic for the past couple of days and has not broken above 800M.