Reply #139: and the 3:30 blather - "99 bottle of beer on the wall, 99 bottles of beer"

[54anickel]

3:30PM: Market continues to put together a respectable advance ahead of this quarter's largest afternoon of earnings reports... After the bell, investors will have earnings from 99 companies to sift through while tomorrow, as market participants digest the biggest morning of Q1 reports (131), they will also have some key economic data to keep in their sights... At 8:30 ET, an advance read on Q1 GDP (consensus 3.5%) and its chain deflator (consensus 2.1%) - a key inflation measure - will hit the wires alongside the Labor Dept.'s release of weekly jobless claims (consensus 230K)...NYSE Adv/Dec 1771/1476, Nasdaq Adv/Dec 1449/1584