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Weekly Market Recap Jul 15, 2018

Courtesy of Blain.

The NYSE McClellan Oscillator flipped to black late in the week prior to the last, and usually that bodes well short term.  Indeed that foreshadowed a nice week. TRADE WARS ™!!!! certainly seems like a “sell the rumor, buy the news” event.

“Given the rhetoric over the past few weeks, it seems like the probability of a trade war has increased. However, in the short term I still think there’s a relatively low probability that one will actually occur. And in the meantime, U.S. economic data has been good, and the Street knows this will be a good year for earnings,” said Scott Wren, senior global equity strategist for Wells Fargo Investment Institute.

“With the prospect of a positive earnings season ahead of us, investors seem to have forgotten the threat of further trade tensions,” said Konstantinos Anthis, head of research at ADS Securities, in a note Tuesday.

Wednesday was the one day the indexes took a hit (momentarily) after the White House late Tuesday said it would assess 10% tariffs on a further $200 billion in Chinese goods.

The new tariffs won’t take effect for at least two months, administration officials said, giving U.S. industry time to comment on the products selected for levies — and for the two sides to start a new round of talks.

“This is different from the other trade announcements, because the size is significantly larger, and because China is unable to directly reciprocate at $200 billion because they don’t import that much. It’s unclear what it might do next, but it is clearly another step closer to a full-blown trade war,” said David Carter, who oversees about $2 billion as chief investment officer at Lenox Wealth Advisors.

Bloomberg reported late Wednesday that officials from both countries have raised the prospects of restarting a conversation at a high level.

Earnings season began in earnest Friday with financials – earnings are set to explode this quarter on the back of massive tax cuts enacted late last year.   Economic reports for the week were not market moving.

For the week the S&P 500 gained 1.5% (two weeks in a row) and the NASDAQ 1.8% (after a 2.4% increase the prior week)

Oil looked crazy strong a week ago – this was quite a drop but still, sitting on a nice moving average.

Copper continues to look like crud.

FAANG stocks go up, news at 11 – yada yada yada.

Here is the 5 day weekly “intraday” chart of the S&P 500 … via Jill Mislinski.

Per Statista here are the top 10 global apps for iPhone.  This list makes me feel very old… and very American. 🙂  i.e. “what the heck are 7 of these??”

Kylie Jenner is apparently almost a billionaire…. uhhh.

Kylie Cosmetics debuted two years ago with $29 “lip kits” and, according to Forbes, has ballooned into a beauty industry icon valued at nearly $800 million. Forbes wrote that the company has sold more than $630 million worth of makeup, including roughly $330 million in 2017 alone.  For scale, Jenner has 111 million Instagram followers – more than twice as many as Barack and Michelle Obama combined. According to Mintel data, 55 percent of consumers ages 18 to 23 used social media or YouTube to get information on beauty brands.

The week ahead…

Earnings season heads into overdrive the next few weeks – if estimates are any indication, they should be blockbuster.

Retail sales hit Monday with expectations of a 0.5% increase.  Trump – Putin face off in Vegas!! Oh wait, Helsinki.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is set to deliver his semiannual monetary policy report to the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday and is likely to testify in front of the House Financial Services Committee thereafter (though that hasn’t been confirmed).

The testimony comes a little over a month after the Fed raised interest rates on June 13 for the seventh time since the end of 2015. Powell’s comments are likely to add more dimension and texture to the institution’s monetary-policy strategy, as it looks to bring interest rates to a more normal, precrisis level and delever its asset portfolio, which became bloated to the tune of some $4.5 trillion during the height of the 2007-09 asset-backed fueled blowup.

Index charts:

Short term: Very choppy on the S&P 500 of late but a new “higher high” (a high higher than the previous high – in this case early June) was hit.  NASDAQ same story but now all time highs.

The Russell 2000 is in an interesting spot.  This has been the leader for quite a while – we have a “double top” right now… that doesn’t mean it’s going to confirm.  We could just be in a “sector rotation” away from domestic companies to international ones who have suffered due to trade war fears.  But it’s certainly something to keep a close eye on.  If a new high is not reached here it will be something to note.

The NYSE McClellan Oscillator was in the black all week but just there at the end of the week – watch this one close as well.

Long term: Still very positive for the “buy and never sell” crowd.

Charts of interest / Big Movers:

Monday, CTI BioPharma (CTIC) tumbled 14% after it said a late-stage trial of a treatment for the blood cancer non-Hodgkin lymphoma failed to meet its main goals.

Wednesday, Fastenal (FAST) surged by 10% after the company late Tuesday said its board raised the quarterly dividend to 40 cents a share from 37 cents a share. The fastener manufacturer also reported better-than-expected second-quarter earnings of 74 cents a share.

Thursday, software company CA (CA) rallied nearly 19% trade after chip giant Broadcom (AVGO) confirmed late Wednesday it has agreed to take over the software company for $44.50 a share. Broadcom sank 13.7%.

Have a great week and we’ll see you back here Sunday!

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