We want to begin this week’s research report with a quick look back at what some might argue was the most important economic data from last week, the Nonfarm Payroll report. The report showed the U.S. adding 164,000 jobs and unemployment falling to 3.9%; the first time the jobless rate has dropped below 4% since the…
Social media and social-financial media sites can be a scary place. Be it Twitter (TWTR), Seeking Alpha or StockTwits, they might be better understood to have a caveat emptor (buyer beware) sticker attached to the various social platforms. I participate and have participated in all of these venues in order to gather resources and disseminate…
We want to begin this week’s research report with a quick look back at what some might argue was the most important economic data from last week, the Nonfarm Payroll report. The report showed the U.S. adding 164,000 jobs and unemployment falling to 3.9%; the first time the jobless rate has dropped below 4% since…...
It wasn’t pretty, but yesterday’s market action proved once again… well it proved nothing more than technicals matter more to markets today than over the last two years. When a market does little more than go up with great persistence, technicals seem to matter very little, but post a market correction; they have proven to…
It was quite a trading day, yesterday, that found the major averages on a roller coaster ride throughout the day. But in 2018, that’s actually been commonplace, which may be indicative of the greater degree of uncertainty that lay within investor sentiment. With that, the chart below offers a rudimentary look at the performance of…
In yesterday’s market update and financial reporting article titled Sell in May and…Not So Much, Finom Group identified that the colloquialism of sell in may and go away is not really supported by the market’s historic performance in May. Since 1998, the markets have been higher roughly 70% of the time in May. In each…
The “big news”, maybe, headline yesterday was delivered through the Personal Consumption and Expenditures (PCE) data. The inflation gauge rose to a 12-month rate of 2%, hitting the Federal Reserve’s target for the first time in nearly a year. The 12-month increase in core rate of inflation was close behind, rising to 1.9% in March…
About half the S&P 500 companies have reported first-quarter results last week. Approximately 80% of those companies reporting results surpassed analysts’ earnings estimates, better than the 74% four-quarter average. And earnings outperformance was substantial, with companies surpassing average estimates by 9.4%, above the average of 5.1%, according to FactSet data. For the week, however, the…
Last week’s jam-packed earnings releases failed to excite investors even as most reporting companies beat analysts’ estimates. About half the S&P 500 companies have reported first-quarter results during the busiest week of the season of quarterly results, with the earnings growth rate at 22.9%, compared with 18.3% at the end of last week. Approximately 80%…...
Market jitters cooled yesterday with the major averages in rally mode. The Dow rose nearly 240 points or .99% to 24,322 and the S&P 500 was up 27.54 points or 1.04% to 2,666. The Nasdaq outperformed, rallying 115 points or 1.64% on the heels of better than expected tech sector earnings. But even with a…
