Market Call

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

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Market Call: Between Iran & A Hard Place

Jan 28, 2024 3 min read paid

Geopolitical events and crises rarely influence Fed policymaking. This time it might be different. The war that began on October 7 between Israel and Hamas is turning into a regional conflict in the Middle East. On Sunday, Iran-backed militants killed three US service members and wounded many more during an unmanned aerial drone attack in northeastern Jordan near the Syrian border. This latest escalation increases the risks of disruptions to

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Market Call: S&P 500/400/600 Are Flying With The Blue Angels

Jan 15, 2024 2 min read paid

Our Blue Angels framework allows us to visualize the stock market equation P = P/E * E in one chart, where P is the stock price index, E is the forward earnings of the index, and P/E is the forward valuation multiple. Forward earnings is the time-weighted average of analysts' consensus earnings expectations for the current year and the coming year. Our analysis of the Blue Angels is that

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Market Call: Charging Into 2024

Dec 25, 2023 2 min read paid

Merry, happy, joyful, and jolly are just some of the adjectives used to describe this time of year. We hope your holiday season has been merry, happy, joyful and jolly so far. It sure has been for stock investors. The fun started more than a year ago on October 12, 2022 when the bear market bottomed. It has been a powerful bull market since then. Consider the following: (1) Here

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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

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Market Call: Winning Streak For The Bulls

Nov 26, 2023 2 min read paid

We expect that the Santa Claus rally in stock prices that started on October 27 will continue over the rest of this year. It should be driven by the realization that inflation can and is moderating without a recession. That can only happen if productivity growth is making a comeback as we expect. China's economic woes are also an important source of "immaculate disinflation" for the

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Market Call: Spotting Reindeers

Nov 5, 2023 2 min read paid

Last week was a wild one for sure in the bond and stock markets. The bond yield plunged and stock prices soared led by SMidCaps and interest-rate sensitive sectors and industries. Fears that the bond yield might continue to surge above 5.00% evaporated in response to weaker-than-expected employment indicators and a broadening consensus that the Fed is done raising the federal funds rate. The bond yield plunged 41bps from

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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

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Market Call: Stop The World —We Want To Get Off!

Oct 15, 2023 2 min read

On December 23, 1776, Thomas Paine famously opined: "These are the times that try men's souls." He did so in an article titled, "The Crisis." On Friday, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon kicked off Q3's earnings season with a stern warning to investors: “Now may be the most dangerous time the world has seen in decades,” he wrote in the company’s

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Market Call: Latest Mideast War Raises Geopolitical Risks

Oct 7, 2023 2 min read paid

Hamas launched a coordinated surprise attack on Israel today. The timing suggests that Iran's mullahs instigated their surrogates in Gaza, hoping to disrupt the peace negotiations between Israel and Saudi Arabia. Israel will undoubtedly launch a massive counter0ffensive. The question is whether Hezbollah will open up a second front on Israel's north. Geopolitical crises in the Middle East have usually caused oil prices to rise and

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Market Call: The Wild Bunch

Oct 1, 2023 3 min read

Just after the S&P 500 nearly hit our year-end target of 4600 ahead of schedule on July 31, we concluded that the index might fall to its 200-day moving average, which is currently around 4200. It could easily do so during October since it closed at 4288 on Friday. Then we see a yearend Santa Claus rally back to 4600, or close to that level. That's

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Market Call: Powell Says Be Careful

Sep 24, 2023 2 min read paid

In his presser last Wednesday, Fed Chair Jerome Powell mentioned "careful" and "carefully" 16 times mostly to describe how the Fed will proceed from here. That sounds like good advice for investors right now. When he was asked about the impact of "external factors" on Fed policy and the economy, he provided a list of five troublesome developments: the UAW strike, a possible government

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