Is the Market Doing the Fed’s Job?
What’s in Today’s Report:
- Is the Market Doing the Fed’s Job?
- Oil Update and EIA Analysis
Futures are moderately higher following a solid night of earnings.
Earnings overnight were better than expected as QCOM posted strong results while FB also beat expectations.
Economic data was sparse, but the Bank of Japan made more dovish comments and the yen is down 2% and hitting fresh multi-decade lows.
Today focus will be on earnings as this is the most important day of the entire earnings season. We get several major companies reporting results including (in order of importance): AAPL ($1.43), AMZN ($8.73), INTC ($0.80), MA ($2.17), TWTR ($0.01), CAT ($2.66) and MCD ($2.18). Given how oversold the market is on a short-term basis, solid results from these companies could fuel a rally, while disappointing results likely will cause another test of the 2022 lows in the S&P 500.
Economically, numbers today include Advanced Q1 GDP (E: 1.1%) and Jobless Claims (E: 181K) but I don’t expect either to move markets.