Paid Broadening Bull Mar 11, 2024 2 min read paid The S&P 500 market-weighted stock price index is up 43.2% since the current bull market started on October 12, 2022 (chart). The equal-weighted version of the index is up 29.5% since it bottomed on September 30, 2022. This confirms our view that the bull market has been a broad one all along. The equal-weighted index has certainly been in a bull market, it just hasn' Ed Yardeni
Paid DEEP DIVE: Global Economy Muddling Along To New Record-High Stock Prices Mar 10, 2024 4 min read paid The UK and Japan are in recessions. Germany is on the edge of falling into a recession. China’s property bubble has burst, which is depressing the overall economy and weighing on other Asian economies. The weakness in the global economy is evident in commodity prices. The S&P Goldman Sachs Commodity Price index is down 31% from its March 8, 2022 peak (Fig. 1 below). The CRB raw Ed Yardeni
Paid Market Call: The Front-Cover Curse Already? Mar 10, 2024 2 min read paid The front cover of this week's Barron's shows the horns of a bull apparently charging through a big white sheet of paper. Only the horns are visible in the picture. Usually a bull appearing on the front cover of a major financial magazine rings alarm bells for contrarians, who view such events as major sell signals. However, the editors of Barron's might have dodged Ed Yardeni
Paid The Economic Week Ahead: March 11-15 Mar 9, 2024 2 min read paid The coming week starts with a couple of key inflation indicators. Both were probably boosted by rising gasoline prices. The retail pump price is up 9.1% since the last week of January. This bounce might have boosted February's reading on the year-ahead expected inflation rate in the FRBNY consumer expectations survey (Mon). It did so, though only slightly, in a similar series from February's SCR Ed Yardeni
Paid New Risk: Powell Stoking Risk-On Trades Mar 7, 2024 2 min read paid Fed Chair Jerome Powell's dovish congressional testimony yesterday and today stoked the hot trades in the financial markets from Nvidia to bitcoin to gold: "We're waiting to become more confident that inflation is moving sustainably at 2%. When we do get that confidence, and we're not far from it, it'll be appropriate to begin to dial back the level of restriction, Ed Yardeni
Public We Have Nothing To Fear But Nothing To Fear Mar 6, 2024 2 min read Fed Chair Jerome Powell was very reassuring during his congressional testimony today. He said the economy is fine, inflation is moderating, and interest rates have probably peaked. He also said the Fed is likely to lower interest rates, but won't rush to do so: "We believe that our policy rate is likely at its peak for this tightening cycle. If the economy evolves broadly as expected, it Ed Yardeni
Paid Dr Ed's Video Webcast 3/6/24 Mar 6, 2024 1 min read paid Bouts of geopolitical or domestic political strife usually don’t derail the US stock market. Investors tend to divorce politics from their decision making, counting on wars to end and gridlock to keep regulation-happy lawmakers in check. Only when geopolitical problems disrupt supply chains, trade, and global energy markets or when domestic partisanship prevents the government from functioning do these considerations matter to companies and their investors. We’re closely Ed Yardeni
Paid Two of the Magnificent 7 Get Shanghaied Mar 5, 2024 2 min read paid Two of the Magnificent-7 are less magnificent. That's because China is in a recession and Chinese consumers are buying fewer of Apple's iPhones and Tesla's EVs. These two companies are also facing more competition from Chinese producers of similar consumer goods. So, they are down 11.6% and 27.3% ytd. Also down by 5.0% ytd is Alphabet, which is deemed to be Ed Yardeni
Paid China: Pushing On A String? Mar 4, 2024 2 min read paid In recent weeks, the Chinese government has introduced several measures to prop up the stock market. This week, the government was expected to announce measures aimed at boosting the economy. In a surprise announcement today, a spokesman said China’s Premier Li Qiang will not brief the media at the close of this year’s annual parliamentary meeting, which begins on Tuesday in Beijing. The government may be concerned that Ed Yardeni
Public 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
Paid The Economic Week Ahead: March 4 - 8 Mar 2, 2024 2 min read paid The week ahead is jampacked with employment indicators. We expect that January's JOLTS report (Wed) and February's employment report (Fri) will confirm that the labor market remains strong. That's based on weekly initial unemployment claims remaining just north of 200,000 in recent weeks and February's consumer confidence survey showing that 41.3% of respondents agreed that jobs are plentiful (chart). Bad Ed Yardeni