Public The S&P 500 Remains In a Correction May 5, 2022 1 min read “Ugly” is the only way to describe today’s stock market selloff. The S&P 500 is down 13.5% ytd since it set a record high on January 3. So it’s still in correction territory. It dropped 3.6% today, but that was after a 3.0% jump the day before. Ed Yardeni
Public Some Bad & Good News On Unit Labor Costs May 5, 2022 1 min read Contributing to the stock market selloff today was more bad news on the inflation front. Nonfarm business (NFB) productivity dropped 7.5% (saar) during Q1. It wasn’t as bad on a y/y basis, falling just 0.6%. It’s a very volatile series on a q/q basis and even on a y/y basis. Ed Yardeni
Public Is the Worst Over For Bonds? May 3, 2022 1 min read We are keeping an eye on the Citibank Economic Surprise Index (ESI), which is highly correlated with the 13-week change in the 10-year US Treasury bond yield. The ESI measures the degree to which economic data are either beating or missing expectations. Ed Yardeni
Public Dr Ed's Weekly Webinar 5/2/22 May 2, 2022 1 min read Spooked investors have driven valuation multiples down to the low end of our projected range and deposited the Nasdaq in a bear market and the S&P 500 back in correction territory. Ed Yardeni
Public Inflation Is Deflating Valuation Multiples Apr 30, 2022 1 min read More air came out of valuation multiples this past week. Here are the forward P/Es of the major indexes at the start of this year and on Friday: Ed Yardeni
Public Regional Business Surveys: More of the Same Apr 29, 2022 1 min read April's national survey of manufacturing purchasing managers will be out on Monday. We expect that the M-PMI composite index is likely to remain around its March reading of 57.1 Ed Yardeni
Public The Ups & Downs of the S&P 500 Apr 26, 2022 2 min read While industry analysts are still raising their earnings estimates for this year and next year, investors continue to take the air out of valuation multiples. Ed Yardeni