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Global Week Ahead: Archive
Is It All Priced In? Global Week Ahead
by John Blank
The bears in the market have clearly been trading on some key earnings negatives. But are these EPS negatives all priced in?
IFNNYPositive Net Change EWZNegative Net Change KEYSPositive Net Change ENGIYPositive Net Change
basic-materials emerging-markets finance
Q3 Offers +1.1% EPS Growth: Global Week Ahead
by John Blank
Increasing headwinds have impacted the S&P 500's EPS growth expected for Q3. That is now down to a paltry +1.1% rate.
DTEGYPositive Net Change BYDDYNegative Net Change ABNBPositive Net Change
earnings finance
The Fed Meeting: Global Week Ahead
by John Blank
What matters? In this order: The Fed, the Fed and the Fed. What matters most is the projected path of 2023 Fed Funds rates.
BRK.BPositive Net Change TCEHYPositive Net Change HSBCPositive Net Change
finance
CPI Data Arrives Tuesday Morn: Global Week Ahead
by John Blank
Tuesday's U.S. inflation data is one of the last -- and perhaps the most important -- pieces of data that will help the Fed decide how aggressively it needs to hike rates in September.
JPMPositive Net Change STMPositive Net Change ORCLPositive Net Change COSTPositive Net Change FDXPositive Net Change ALBPositive Net Change ANETPositive Net Change VWAGYPositive Net Change
consumer-staples energy finance retail
Europe's Energy Crunch in Focus: Global Week Ahead
by John Blank
A large policy rate hike could be in store from the ECB to combat soaring consumer price inflation. While seen globally, energy costs are adding even more oomph there.
BRK.BPositive Net Change CDNSNegative Net Change JDPositive Net Change
oil-energy
Tricky Markets in September? Global Week Ahead
by John Blank
The U.S. stock market's rebound has lost some steam, just as it is entering what has been on average its most treacherous month.
XOMNegative Net Change TCEHYPositive Net Change TSMPositive Net Change
emerging-markets finance
Jackson Hole: Global Week Ahead
by John Blank
How big will future rate hikes be? How strong is the economy? What about quantitative tightening? Investors hope the Federal Reserve may shed light on those questions when central banking heavyweights meet on Aug. 25-27 for their annual symposium.
STMPositive Net Change EXRPositive Net Change ANETPositive Net Change
earnings emerging-markets finance
Big Box U.S. Retail Reports: Global Week Ahead
by John Blank
Investors will be looking out for what the biggest U.S. retailers have to say on rising prices, after a rare bit of good news on inflation in the past week.
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emerging-markets finance retail
The CPI in Focus: Global Week Ahead
by John Blank
Wednesday's July U.S. inflation print is shaping up as a key test for a summer rally in U.S. stocks that has lifted the S&P 500 to multi-week highs.
BPPositive Net Change KOFNegative Net Change HSBCPositive Net Change
consumer-discretionary consumer-staples emerging-markets finance
A Nonfarm Jobs Update: Global Week Ahead
by John Blank
Stock traders must factor in macro cooling across a full range of economies.This implies U.S. post-COVID job adds slow down.
ILMNPositive Net Change CDNSNegative Net Change CPNGPositive Net Change
earnings
The FOMC Matters Most: Global Week Ahead
by John Blank
That stiff Fed policy rate hike arrives just as traders and investors digest a wave of Q2-22 earnings from S&P 500 companies and major firms listed in Europe.
NTESNegative Net Change AVGOPositive Net Change PROSYPositive Net Change
emerging-markets finance
Q2 Earnings Create Waves: Global Week Ahead
by John Blank
Management updates can create major waves, as they produce a cascade of earnings estimates revisions, across a number of S&P 500 sectors and industries.
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earnings finance travel-leisure
The First Earnings Reports: Global Week Ahead
by John Blank
Overall, Q2 results should shed light on the outlook for profit margins, input costs and hiring. And listen out for what company bosses say about a potential recession.
BIDUPositive Net Change AVGOPositive Net Change PDDPositive Net Change
airlines emerging-markets finance
Time to Buy Chinese Large Caps? Global Week Ahead
by John Blank
With officials pledging support for markets and the economy, and easing their tech sector crackdowns, investment banks are again rushing to slap Buy labels on Chinese shares.
JPMPositive Net Change KRNegative Net Change KMTUYPositive Net Change
consumer-staples finance staffing
Reflections from Sintra Portugal: Global Week Ahead
by John Blank
The Fed has Jackson Hole, but the ECB has Sintra, its very own central bank forum in the foothills of Portugal's Sintra Mountains.
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emerging-markets finance
Central Banks Will Still Drive Stocks: Global Week Ahead
by John Blank
Forget S&P 500 earnings estimates for the time being. Financial market trading has been fully tied to fresh key macro data and macro-driven policy events these days.
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emerging-markets finance
A Big Central Bank Week: Global Week Ahead
by John Blank
On Wednesday, the U.S. Fed certainly delivers its 2nd straight 50-basis-point (bps) rate hike, in order to bring broad U.S. consumer inflation under control. A day later, and then Friday, Britain and Sweden will also likely lift interest rates again.
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emerging-markets finance
Friday's CPI Print Matters: Global Week Ahead
by John Blank
In the USA on Friday, traders hope for calmer Consumer Price Inflation (CPI) data, granting Fed voting gives some leeway to go slower with policy tightening.
WMBNegative Net Change HESNegative Net Change MPCNegative Net Change
consumer-discretionary consumer-staples
Time to Buy in June? Global Week Ahead
by John Blank
The sell-in-May-and-go-away adage applies to equities and yes, investors dumped stocks, especially those listed on the tech-heavy Nasdaq.
DALNegative Net Change WYPositive Net Change MPWRPositive Net Change
emerging-markets staffing
A Retailer Wall of Worry: Global Week Ahead
by John Blank
A U.S. retail investment sentiment index is close to a March 2009 low while fund managers are running their highest cash levels since September 2011.
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apparel earnings retail
Bitcoin Prices Are Plunging: Global Week Ahead
by John Blank
Stock traders enter the week with the Nasdaq index down -24.5% YTD, the S&P 500 down -15.6% and Bitcoin (BTC) prices in a freefall.
LUVNegative Net Change TGTNegative Net Change WMTNegative Net Change LOWPositive Net Change HDPositive Net Change SYYNegative Net Change CDNSNegative Net Change
bitcoin cryptocurrency earnings retail
Watch the CPI Data: Global Week Ahead
by John Blank
The policy-tightening rush is adding to the storm clouds gathering over the world economy, hit by soaring food and energy prices, war in Ukraine and China's COVID curbs.
VWAGYPositive Net Change ABNBPositive Net Change TTENegative Net Change
emerging-markets finance
Lots to Focus On: Global Week Ahead
by John Blank
Earnings growth for the quarter drops to +0.5% on an ex-Energy basis, but improves to +13.3% on an ex-Finance basis. But that is not the only stock market matter to care about.
WMBNegative Net Change DVNNegative Net Change XOMNegative Net Change
emerging-markets finance staffing
Does May 9 Matter? Global Week Ahead
by John Blank
The May 9th date is attracting attention in global headlines: it's Victory Day, marking the Russian defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945 at the end of World War II.
AMXPositive Net Change NFLXPositive Net Change PGPositive Net Change TSLAPositive Net Change NTDTYPositive Net Change UBERPositive Net Change
emerging-markets finance oil-energy
Q1 USA Earnings Season Picks Up Steam: Global Week Ahead
by John Blank
In the Global Week Ahead, other possible market influences are not likely to trump Q1 earnings results, once they are played, in a daily sequence.
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earnings energy