S&P 500 Snapshot: A Sine Wave, A Closing Rally

 | Apr 15, 2014 03:59PM ET

Before the market opened, the Empire State Manufacturing Survey was surprisingly weak. S&P 500 ignored the economic data and resumed yesterday's closing rally to its morning high about 20 minutes later. By 2 PM the index had executed a complete sine wave from yesterday's close. It then rallied to its 0.73% intraday high shortly before the final bell, which recorded a trimmed gain of 0.68%.

The yield on the 10-year note finished at 2.64%, down 1 bp from Friday's close and 4 bps off the 2014 low of 2.60%.

Here is a snapshot of the past five sessions.