12:00 TUESDAY – Stock Market Report #173 – 8/2/22
by Robert Holman | The Defensive Advisor | www.defensiveadvisor.com
EQUITY MARKET RATING… 3 (0-4 bearish, 5 neutral, 6-10 bullish). There is a bull/bear battle that continues weekly.
TODAY’s TOPIC (a continuing series) … I will pick up this series again soon.
EQUITY MARKETS and the ECONOMY … The market has rallied a little bit over the past weeks. Technical indicators are trending toward the positive. This has brought much needed relief to investor worries and fears. However, I see this a little more than a brief bear market rally within an overall downward trend.
Interest rates have rallied in the bond market, which shows that the biggest of all big money believes any further Fed tightening will lead to an economic slowdown and an easing of rates, probably by the fourth quarter. So we could see a downward market for much of the third quarter.
There is significant investor concern that future earnings estimates are going to be lowered. Lower estimates will most likely bring the market down further. We have reduced our stock holdings significantly.
NOTE: Caring for my wife after her rotator cuff surgery has kept me away from writing this letter weekly. In addition, she suffered a pretty severe burn and that has set us back a bit. But this too shall pass.
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Excelsior Divitiae. Proverbs 21:5, 22:3, 27:12 and 3:56, Joshua 1:9, Ecclesiastes 8:7, 1Chronicles 12:32 and 29:11-13, and James 4:13-16.
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