Recent Commentaries tagged (spx)
JOLTS: Job Openings Jump - Analyst Blog
We just got some important details on the Jobs picture for December from the Job Opening and Labor Turnover Survey, or JOLTS report. The big employment report, like the one for January we got on Friday, only shows the net number of jobs created or lost in a given month. In any given month, the n...
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Factory Jobs Downright Robust - Analyst Blog
In January, the US added 50,000 manufacturing jobs, the largest amount since January 2011. However, the performance is even more impressive than that would imply. Since 1990, we have only seen that level of factory job growth matched of exceeded five times -- 2.3% of the time. Looking even furthe...
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Earnings: Better, but Still Not Good -...
Third quarter earnings season was a good one, unfortunately we may not be able to say the same about the fourth quarter. We got off to a very weak start, and while the last week was better, it just pushed the season from being very poor to mediocre at best. So far 290, or 56.0% of the firms have...
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New Month Bounce?
Over the last eight trading days, the S&P 500 has traded in a very narrow range. For four days in a row, we have had downside action but the dipbuyers continued to bail us out and supporting the low. With window-dressing pressures now over, will the new month money be enough to hold us up? The ...
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Are Portfolio Managers Too Cautious? - Real...
Bloomberg has an interesting article today titled "U.S. Stocks in Longest Valuation Slump Since Nixon." Written by Inyoung Hwang and Whitney Kisling, the piece highlights the fact that the S&P 500 hasn't traded above its long-run 16.4 mean P/E ratio for 446 days, which is the longest stretch sinc...
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A Golden Cross For The S&P 500?
By Frank Holmes I had a neighbor who set his sprinkler system to go on every Wednesday around 5 a.m., about the same time I am about to reach his yard on my jog. After a few weeks of getting my ankles wet, I started to cross the street before I reached his property. Like sprinkler systems,... ***...
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The Dollar, Weak Earnings Indicate A Top is...
By JW Jones A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. ~ David Hume ~Earnings season is now upon us and so far the only major earnings component that has been released is the J.P. Morgan earnings report that came in Friday before the market opened. After the report was digested by...***Th...
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