If you thought Monday was ugly for global equities, it didn’t get any better on Tuesday. U.S. equity indexes fell sharply, again, on Tuesday with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) leading the way lower by 2.2 percent. The Dow was down more than 630 points intraday at its lows. The Nasdaq (NDX) fell 1.7%…
The market is definitively testing the resolve of long-term investors and has been since October you might say. Earnings are rising over 20% for 2018, sales are growing nearly double-digits and profit margins are at all time highs. But…the major averages are on the verge of turning negative for the year and with the Nasdaq…
Right now, it just doesn’t matter how good the earnings are, as the bears have their paws on the sell button and the bulls are overly concerned with prospects for the economy in 2019. With that as the backdrop for the market, corporate earnings that find companies beating analyst estimates and raising guidance have still…
Although equity futures rose sharply on Wednesday morning and CPI data proved innocuous, those gains were quickly erased once Wall Street opened to greater volumes. We’ll get to the CPI data in a moment, but knowing those gains were quickly going to be erased didn’t demand a crystal ball, and we’ll show you why! The…
Entering the trading week we were forced to understand there would be an additional selling force in the market. We disseminated information over the weekend through our weekly research report that identified the culprit that would plague the market this week. “Finom Group urges investors to remain cautious as the current trading week may find…
By: TONYA GARCIA of MarketWatch Walmart Inc., which reports fiscal third-quarter earnings on Thursday before the bell, is bringing together a variety of services and shopping experiences to create a new kind of retail experience, analysts say. Cowen analysts, writing after last month’s investment community meeting, said the retail giant is using its scale, global growth…
In our most recent research report (subscription required), we disseminated the weekly expected move for the S&P 500 starting the week of 11/12/18. As shown in the screenshot below, the weekly expected move is $50… and we got every bit of that weekly move in the very first trading day of the week. The major…
FEWER S&P 500 COMPANIES HAVE DISCUSSED TARIFFS ON EARNINGS CALLS FOR Q3 COMPARED TO Q2 COMPANIES AND EARNINGS By John Butters | November 9, 2018 During each corporate earnings season, it is not unusual for companies to comment on subjects that had an impact on their earnings and revenues in a given quarter or may have an…
The S&P 500 (SPX) began the week at 2,733 and traveled all the way up to a closing high for the week at 2,813 and before consolidating on Thursday at 2,806. Why is this relevant? Well, it is relevant due to the efficiency of the market that has seemingly persisted for much of 2018. Weekly…
Wall Street held a post-midterm election rally on Wednesday with the Dow (DJIA) and S&P 500 (SPX) rallying just over 2.10% each. The strength in the two indexes was only dwarfed by the tech-heavy Nasdaq (NDX), which rallied over 2.6% on the trading day. As we suggested previously at Finom Group, should the market’s rally…
