U.S. stocks have staged an impressive rally over the past few months. While we like seeing stocks rise, we’re starting to see signs of overbought conditions and stretched sentiment in market indicators we watch. We still believe in long-term fundamentals, but we think...
With just 45 S&P 500 Index companies having reported, fourth quarter 2019 earnings growth is tracking to a 2.4% yearover-year decline on 2.5% revenue growth. It’s early in the season, but the slight increase in 2020 S&P 500 earnings estimates since December...
Earnings growth was largely absent in 2019, but we expect it to pick up in 2020. With stock valuations elevated, we think earnings hold the key to pushing stocks higher this year. We preview fourth quarter earnings season and share our thoughts on the outlook for...
Our Recession Watch Dashboard is showing an overall low risk of recession starting within the next year. Because data for the components of this dashboard are available with varying frequencies, some will be more current than others. In all cases, we have used the...
COMPASS CHANGES Upgraded financials view to neutral/positive from neutral Upgraded industrial metals view to neutral from negative/neutral INVESTMENT TAKEAWAYS Our S&P 500 Index year-end 2020 fair value target range of 3,250–3,300 is based on a price to-earnings...
