– James F. Taulman, former Editor-in-Chief of the first independently licensed website to offer stock reports and services based on the CAN SLIM® investment system.
8:30 AM – MORNING MARKET UPDATE & WATCH LIST
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[dropcap]T[/dropcap]his morning President Trump sent shivers through global markets, with stocks plunging after he threatened new tariffs that would escalate the US-China trade war.
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The Shanghai Composite plunged -5.6%, while Hong Kong’s Hang Seng fell nearly -3%. The Stoxx Europe 600 index opened down -1.2%. Oil futures dropped while gold prices increased.
U.S. stock futures also pointed to a slump. The S&P 500 was set to open down nearly -1.6%, while the Nasdaq was poised to fall -1.8%.
Last week, positive economic news significantly helped to buoy the market as early in the week investors were reassured by dovish signals from the Fed in spite of continued uncertainty over the outlook for the global economy and there was also the newly announced rebound in first-quarter growth, to +3.2%.
The S&P and Nasdaq made new highs intra-day on Tuesday, however, each index did reverse and actually close that session lower.
That lead to a pullback to near their respective their previous lows of mid-April on Thursday.
From there, stocks got a boost from the latest jobs report released at 8:30 AM Friday which beat analyst forecasts and helped the S&P close with a weekly gain while the Nasdaq ended at a new all-time high.
The Dow closed the week at 26,504, off just -38 points or -0.14% on the week. This is after closing a smidge (-16points) lower the previous week. Of course, the decline in Boeing (BA) has put a noted drag on the index. It has yet to make a new all-time high, closing -0.6% from its next potential milestone.
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The Blue-chips have strong, near-coinciding support of the previous lows, along with the 50-day moving average at 26078, and the round-26000.
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The Nasdaq did officially close at an all-time high of 8164 – albeit by only adding +17 points this week. This was the index’s sixth straight up week up. The tech-centric index is now up 17 of its past 19 weeks, leading the rally with gains of +23% so far for the year.
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The S&P 500 added just +6 points or +0.20% this past week and closed at 2945, just shy of the record high close it reached on Tuesday. That’s still enough to have the index again narrowly-gaining for a straight second week.
The bellwether has actually only closed lower 4 weeks so far this rally, and is technically up 5 out of the last 6 weeks, remaining in an uptrend.
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Earnings season continued in full force as many bigger names such as GOOG, AAPL, AMD, GE, MCD, MA, PFE, CVS, GSK, YUM, GILD reporting throughout the week.
In general, quarterly numbers have come in mixed so far with nearly 80% of the companies in the S&P 500 reporting, 76% have reported a positive EPS surprise and 60% have reported a positive revenue surprise.
The 1st quarter earnings season was actually forecast to show a -4% decline, and halfway through the season, earnings growth is flat to slightly negative.
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