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Market Call: Next Stop At 200-Day Moving Average?

Apr 21, 2024 3 min read paid

The S&P 500 is now down 5.5% from its March 28 record high. It dropped below its 50-day moving average (dma) last week (chart). Where might it find some technical support? It might do so around 4800, which would match the peak just before the previous bear market and put the index unchanged for the year so far. Below that level is the 200-dma, currently around 4700,

Ed Yardeni

Market Call: The Winds Of War

Apr 14, 2024 2 min read paid

The S&P 500 is down 2.5% from its record high of 5254.35 on March 29 (chart). Its 1.5% drop on Friday was widely attributed to disappointing earnings reports from the big banks that day. Undoubtedly, the market also reacted to warnings from the White House that Iran would attack Israel within a couple of days, which happened Saturday afternoon EST. The S&P 500

Ed Yardeni

Market Call: Nvidia's Lovefest Versus Powell's (Perhaps Depressing) Presser

Mar 17, 2024 2 min read paid

Nvidia's three-day AI lovefest for developers starts Monday afternoon in San Jose, California. The FOMC meets Tuesday and Wednesday followed by Fed Chair Jerome Powell's press conference at 2:30 pm following the meeting. During his congressional testimony on March 7, Powell indicated that the Fed "is not far from...dial[ing] back the level of restriction." After last week's hotter than

Ed Yardeni

Market Call: Dalio's Bubble Trouble Meter

Mar 3, 2024 3 min read

In a February 29 LinkedIn post, Ray Dalio wrote that his bubble gauge for the overall stock market is at a mid-range reading of 52 (chart). He concluded that the stock market "doesn't look very bubbly." His meter is based on six inputs that signal whether speculative activity is too widespread. So it is currently indicating rational exuberance rather than irrational exuberance, which typically fuels a

Ed Yardeni

Market Call: Investing Is For Teenagers

Feb 18, 2024 2 min read

Contrary indicator alert! On Sunday, the WSJ posted an article titled "These Teenagers Know More About Investing Than You Do: Custodial investment accounts for minors have surged in popularity." According to the article, the kids are all buying technology stocks: "Brokerage executives say that technology behemoths that are ubiquitous in the lives of teens are often some of the most widely held shares." You have been

Ed Yardeni

Market Call: Meta's Universe

Feb 4, 2024 3 min read paid

Meta is leading the stock market to where it has never gone before, i.e., to new record highs. Its stock price rocketed 20.3% on Friday, adding $204.5 billion to its market value, the biggest one-day gain by any US company in history. Industry analysts scrambled to raise their earnings forecasts for the company following Thursday's after-the-close earnings call with management (chart). As a group, the

Ed Yardeni

Market Call: What Should We Root For?

Jan 7, 2024 2 min read

Both the bond and stock markets didn't do much on Friday following the release of December's employment report and NM-PMI. The former looked better-than-expected at first, but not as strong in the details (and downward revisions of the previous two months), and wage inflation was higher than expected. The NM-PMI was weaker than expected led by an unbelievable (literally) drop in its employment sub-index down to

Ed Yardeni

Market Call: Investors Broadening Their Horizon

Dec 17, 2023 2 min read paid

The current bull market started during October of last year. Since then, the bears have been warning that it was a rally in a bear market. That's because most of them expected a recession, and many of them still do. In addition, they've observed that the rally has been narrowly led by the MegaCap-8. The rest of the stock market seemed to be comatose. Our view

Ed Yardeni

Market Call: Monitoring Geopolitical Risk In the Middle East

Dec 3, 2023 2 min read paid

The Santa Claus rally is about to be tested again by the prospects of a regional war in the Middle East. The Gaza War started on October 7, when Hamas attacked Israel. Yet both bond and stock prices have rallied since late October as investors bet that it would stay localized. So far, it has. Indeed, even the price of a barrel of brent crude oil has declined since then

Ed Yardeni

Market Call: Refreshing Pause For Bulls & Reindeer

Nov 19, 2023 2 min read paid

The federal funds rate futures market is anticipating two 25bps cuts in the federal funds rate over the next 12 months (chart). That makes sense to us and is consistent with the September FOMC's Summary of Economic Projections. More rate cuts could occur if a recession is coming our way in 2024, but that's not our forecast. We still think that the 10-year Treasury bond yield

Steve Rybka

Stock Prices Are Jumping Again

Nov 12, 2023 3 min read paid

After the stock market closed on Friday, Moody’s reduced the US government's credit rating from “stable” to “negative” citing large fiscal deficits. The ratings agency said in a statement that “continued political polarization” in Congress raises the risk that lawmakers will not be able to reach consensus on a fiscal plan to slow the decline in debt affordability.” Will bond and stock prices tumble on Monday again

Ed Yardeni

Market Call: Investors Are Spooked

Oct 29, 2023 2 min read paid

Halloween is on Tuesday. Investors have been spooked since early August. They are still spooked by the widening federal deficit, partisan gridlock in Washington, sticky inflation, Fed hawkishness, and a world of trouble. They've been reacting to good economic news as though it is bad news since inflation is less likely to moderate if the economy is strong. We don't agree because we think that productivity

Ed Yardeni

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