Tim Heekin
Tim Heekin
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There's no economic news out Friday or Monday, and the economic news the rest of next week is not hugely influential,
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Semiconductors and software have been the leadership for the past few months, so when there's tech selling now, they tend to lose support first. But we're at the top of a range, technically, so we're going to see some selling for the next two or three sessions.
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It's pretty quiet today. We've got an FOMC meeting behind us, most of the earnings behind us, an employment number behind us. The next piece of economic news everyone will look at will be retail sales on Thursday.
behind earnings economic employment meeting news next number piece quiet retail sales
It's pretty quiet today, ... We've got an FOMC meeting behind us, most of the earnings behind us, an employment number behind us. The next piece of economic news everyone will look at will be retail sales on Thursday.
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We have no economic numbers Monday and my sense is that the market is going to keep consolidating for the next few sessions, before we make a bottom and then build from there
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I think even if oil prices continue to fall for the next few days, we're probably going to see stocks continuing to pull back.
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In the first four months of the year, people made a lot of moves, but since then, I think people have been sitting on their hands a bit. I think that will continue in the next week, but a few weeks from now, it gets more interesting.
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The election will take center stage next week, but hopefully that will actually end on Tuesday. Then later in the week, people can focus on the jobs report and the earnings.
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What started this two weeks ago was the big pension funds and other institutions coming in, seeing that bonds were getting over-valued and shifting money out of fixed income and into equities.
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Earnings have been fine, but they just haven't been as robust as people were hoping. The guidance for the third and fourth quarters hasn't been that strong, and part of the rally was based on people betting that the second half of the year would be good, so with the numbers not saying that, you're seeing some selling.
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FedEx is a big drag today, Merck is down, steel is down, airlines are down, it's all weighing on the transports,
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There's a good tone to the market. We're moving towards some key technical levels, particularly with the S&P 500. I think that if we can hold and then break through them, we could go higher.
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Bonds finally showed a little reversal. We put in a high on the long-terms and then dipped off of that. I think the big bond funds came in and started taking profits after the recent run. The real test will be if we can hold these levels.
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The tech sector as a whole has performed so badly this year; the Nasdaq has been the worst performer year-to-date. I think a lot of money flew into the 10-year bond during the conventions, during the Olympics, and now people are looking to put their money into the beaten-down sectors, like tech.