With 466 of the SP 500 having reported 3rd quarter ’19 earnings, the earnings season officially ends this coming week when Cisco (CSCO) and Walmart (WMT) report their respective October ’19 quarters. The big news this past week was the … Continued
The first rate cut in – what – 8 or 10 years just 6 weeks ago, saw the SP 500 and the high-yield credit markets sell off sharply. The selling continued through the first half of August as the SP … Continued
(This blog post was written Friday night, August 16th but inadvertently saved as a “draft” instead of being published. It’s a few days old, but not much has changed.) Thomson Reuters used to have a guy that managed the “This … Continued
We are presently in “the dead zone” of earnings reports and revisions, as – according to IBES by Refinitiv data – there were just 517 revisions to analyst estimates this week, versus the 2,300 odd changes to estimates during the … Continued
Well, in a word, “yes” which should surprise no one. Back in the early 2000’s, while writing for TheStreet, there was a fellow contributor by the name of Jordan Kahn, out of LA, (Kahn Asset Management), who I thought was … Continued
May seem like a small data point but this week showed the first sequential improvement in the “4-week” rate of change in the SP 500 2019 and 2020 EPS estimate since – guess when – September 21 ’18. At … Continued
Check back in tomorrow morning for the weekly SP 500 earnings data, i.e. Saturday morning, November 3rd, 2018. One aspect to the October drop in stocks, is that there was no flight to Treasuries. The 10-year Treasury yield jumped from … Continued
Great article from Ben Carlson, CFA picked up by Josh Brown of Ritholtz Wealth. In this blog post from a few days ago, here is what I was thinking of when evaluation the Bloomberg Barclays Aggregate (AGG), the bond market’s … Continued
The Financial sector is one of client’s overweights and it’s lagged the SP 500 badly all year. Up just 2% YTD, versus the roughly 8% total return for the SP 500, banks and brokers have been pretty punk, with the … Continued
(The weekly SP 500 earnings update will be posted tomorrow, i.e. Saturday, 10/6/18.) One of the reasons I chose the investment management business as a career, is that I was fortunate to have been studying economics and Money & Banking, … Continued