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Earnings Season Begins With a Thud

Not surprisingly stocks were about breakeven on Tuesday as investors held their breath for earnings season. Then after hours Alcoa stunk up the joint with a pretty hefty miss. Gladly Alcoa is not a great bellwether for the US economy and investors will likely not overreact to this one earnings report. By next week Friday we should have a much better sense of the quality of this earnings season.

Let's roll back to the broader market picture. Yes, the S&P 500 was about breakeven Tuesday. However, there were major pockets of profit. In particular, small caps and growth oriented stocks continued to bounce back from the severe beatings they have taken the last two months. This means that more investors are pondering the notion that there may not be a recession and willing to take on more risk.

This is a sound move if indeed there is no recession. It is quite foolish if a downturn does unfold.

Long story short, these are not easy times to know with exact certainty what to do. Whenever that is the case, then better not to be 100% long or 100% short as you could end up 100% broke. Rather, consider first if you are leaning more bullish or bearish. Then make a smaller than usual investment in that direction given the odds that you could be dead wrong. When things become clearer, then you can add to your positions.

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