12:00 TUESDAY – Stock Market Report #193 – 1/17/23
by Robert Holman | The Defensive Advisor | www.defensiveadvisor.com
STOCK MARKET RATING … 5.0 (0-4 bearish, 5 neutral, 6-10 bullish), my assessment of present and future market conditions remains unchanged at “neutral”.
Objective: Make this an actionable report that is a short 2-3 minute read.
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Although bad earnings reports from Goldman Sachs and Travelers, both Dow stocks, are bringing the markets down today, the market had been showing signs of positivity. It seems like the market may have made a little bit of a shift lately. Most investors feel that 2023 has a chance of being an up year (good riddance 2022!) but that increase may come in the second half of the year.
A week ago, Fed Chair Powell spoke about needing to raise interest rates higher for longer. This is to be expected until job growth diminishes, and wage increases moderate. Then …
the jobs report was strong, but better than feared by the market, so the market moved up.
a statement made by one of the Fed governors indicated the extent of rate hikes will be less than generally believed. The market loved that and was in an uptrend until today.
While these are positive developments, they are also somewhat confusing.
o The jobs report seems to be too strong for Powell; and
o The Fed comment, which was merely indicating future increases would be 25bps, seems to have been misinterpreted to mean more than that.
The CPI report last week was accepted well by the market as its increase was as expected.
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Excelsior Divitiae.
Learn from the Bible: Proverbs 15:22, 21:5, 22:3 and 27:12, Ecclesiastes 8:7, Joshua 1:9, Proverbs 3:5-6, Ephesians 1:17, 1Chronicles 29:11-13, and 1 Chronicles 12:32. I recommend you read them in this order.
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