Any weakness in [Big Tech’s earnings reports] could be the catalyst for the market weight S&P to decisively break below its 200 DMA which I’ve been forecasting for three weeks now – “Market Technicals Heading Into Big Tech Earnings”, Top…
The market weight S&P 500 closed just below its 200 DMA Monday as we head into the heart of 3Q23 earnings season with Google (GOOG/GOOGL), Microsoft (MSFT), Facebook (META) and Amazon (AMZN) all reporting earnings this week. As Karen Langley…
Right now in the stock market we have as clear a divergence as I can recall between what the technicals are saying and what the fundamentals are. As far as the technicals, the S&P is above its 200 DMA, above…
Sentiment became euphoric Thursday on the back of META earnings yesterday afternoon sending the NASDAQ up 3.25% and the S&P 1.47%. Unfortunately – as I suggested in my blog this morning (“The Bear Market Has Been Cancelled”) – price was…
Get your beauty sleep this weekend because next week is poised to be epic. In addition to a Fed Decision on Wednesday, we have Big Tech earnings. The market ramped up last week with the S&P breaking out above its…
Google (GOOG/GOOGL) and Microsoft (MSFT) were the first of The Big 5 to report 2Q22 earnings Tuesday afternoon – and their reports can best be characterized as mediocre. Let’s start with GOOG/GOOGL. Core Advertising Revenues grew only 12% – compared…
The market has been thrashed in the four days since Powell essentially assured a 50 basis point hike next Wednesday. The NASDAQ is down 8% over that time span (-20% YTD) and closed Tuesday at a 52-week low. The dollar…
The market is bifurcated into the mega cap tech stocks that have held up well so far – and thus propped up the indexes – and the smaller but still important stocks that have already suffered brutal bear markets. My…
Google (GOOG/GOOGL) reported 4Q21 earnings after the close Tuesday and they were a thing of beauty. Revenue increased 32% to $75 billion resulting in a 38% increase in diluted EPS to $30.69. GOOG/GOOGL had revenues in excess of $250 billion…
The NASDAQ appears to me to be in serious technical trouble. For a while now, I’ve been writing about the “stealth bear market”. That is, important but not leading stocks have been breaking down beneath the surface without doing much…