Earnings Scorecard: For Q3 2018 (with 92% of the companies in the S&P 500 reporting actual results for the quarter), 78% of S&P 500 companies have reported a positive EPS surprise and 61% have reported a positive sales surprise.
Earnings Scorecard: For Q3 2018 (with 92% of the companies in the S&P 500 reporting actual results for the quarter), 78% of S&P 500 companies have reported a positive EPS surprise and 61% have reported a positive sales surprise.
Seattle,
Market action is certainly different. The daily swings are pretty wide.
Take care.
Igy
Thanks, Igy.
The market swings are a traders dream. I'm just getting around to trying to trying a couple of quick trades for a profit, and more than half of those were not what i would hope.
More than anything, though, would be relieved enough to find that the brunt of the selling is about over.
Ghost of Igloi wrote:
Seattle,
Market action is certainly different. The daily swings are pretty wide.
Take care.
Igy
It’s different this time.
Plainridge wrote:
Ghost of Igloi wrote:
Seattle,
Market action is certainly different. The daily swings are pretty wide.
Take care.
Igy
It’s different this time.
No, it like it is 2000 and 2008.
I don't think so. This time the economy is in very good shape. And that is not to be under-estimated in importance.
seattle prattle wrote:
I don't think so. This time the economy is in very good shape. And that is not to be under-estimated in importance.
OK, then how come the economy cannot handle normalized interest rates?
who leads you to believe it can't? Isn't that what the fed is moving towards?
Do you mean the Markets can't handle normalized interest rates? That's a different question entirely.
I think the market excesses were driven by plentiful cheap money. Certsinly Wall Street has been clamoring for Powell to back off, and the President as well.
Wall Street Spokesman Cramer:
i wonder where we are in the corporations buying back their stock. I got the impression that there was still more to come, but wonder if anyone has a general forecast as to where we are in that cycle.
Ghost of Igloi wrote:
Plainridge wrote:
It’s different this time.
No, it like it is 2000 and 2008.
I was just emphasizing what you said...that it’s different.
seattle prattle wrote:
who leads you to believe it can't? Isn't that what the fed is moving towards?
Do you mean the Markets can't handle normalized interest rates? That's a different question entirely.
Igy typically confuses the economy and the markets.
https://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/inline-images/spx%20buyback%20index.jpg?itok=Svom2FJ9seattle prattle wrote:
i wonder where we are in the corporations buying back their stock. I got the impression that there was still more to come, but wonder if anyone has a general forecast as to where we are in that cycle.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/stocks-just-saw-the-best-earnings-season-since-the-financial-crisis-and-nobody-cares-2018-11-17Earnie wrote:
Earnings Scorecard: For Q3 2018 (with 92% of the companies in the S&P 500 reporting actual results for the quarter), 78% of S&P 500 companies have reported a positive EPS surprise and 61% have reported a positive sales surprise.
https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-stocks-buybacks/sp-500-buybacks-set-another-quarterly-record-sp-dow-jones-idUSL2N1XS009seattle prattle wrote:
i wonder where we are in the corporations buying back their stock. I got the impression that there was still more to come, but wonder if anyone has a general forecast as to where we are in that cycle.
KeIIy wrote:
https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-stocks-buybacks/sp-500-buybacks-set-another-quarterly-record-sp-dow-jones-idUSL2N1XS009seattle prattle wrote:
i wonder where we are in the corporations buying back their stock. I got the impression that there was still more to come, but wonder if anyone has a general forecast as to where we are in that cycle.
3 companies , QCOM ( $21.162 B ) ; APPL ( $19.364 B ) and ORCL ( $10.346 ) account for 25% of that $200 Billion .
Ghost of Igloi wrote:
https://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/inline-images/spx%20buyback%20index.jpg?itok=Svom2FJ9seattle prattle wrote:
i wonder where we are in the corporations buying back their stock. I got the impression that there was still more to come, but wonder if anyone has a general forecast as to where we are in that cycle.
Link with no explanation. Also, are small caps still burning to the ground? Thinking of making some options plays on TNA/TZA for maximum exposure (why lose some of my money when I can lose it all on triple leveraged funds ).
Retail earnings are coming up. So far the market has rejected the tech sector in earnings and the house building sector! Maybe a short position on XRT?
Racket wrote:
Ghost of Igloi wrote:
https://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/inline-images/spx%20buyback%20index.jpg?itok=Svom2FJ9Link with no explanation. Also, are small caps still burning to the ground? Thinking of making some options plays on TNA/TZA for maximum exposure (why lose some of my money when I can lose it all on triple leveraged funds ).
Retail earnings are coming up. So far the market has rejected the tech sector in earnings and the house building sector! Maybe a short position on XRT?
TZA (3x inverse small caps) is actually in the green over the past 6 months so small caps must be hurting