Two big pieces of news dominated stock prices on US stock market indexes. The first piece was economic data drops that are adding credibility to the news that US interest rates could take their first leg down in September.
Here’s a story from Michael Carmody of Centennial Asset Management, who not only talked up the potential of the market index to head higher, he also nominated two stocks he liked, big time. Better still, he thinks this rally has a lot more time left in it, so you can see why I’m smiling.
Friday night on Wall Street was negative but it’s more likely to be a consequence of profit-taking after a very positive week for the S&P 500 index — up 1.69%
When I woke up this morning, I had one big question I wanted answered and it was all about what the US job figures did to support the current market view that an interest rate cut is coming in September.
This could be a week to remember for optimistic tech and growth stock players, hopefully with data pointing to rate cuts sooner rather than later.
While the news on the Fed’s preferred inflation measure wasn’t bad, it wasn’t good enough to excite a market that could be over-excited, especially if the all-important readings on what’s happening to US prices aren’t screaming that rate cuts are imminent.
Here are my five big reasons why I expect stocks to keep rising over 2024 and, at least, into the first half of 2025. I tested 12 stocks against the views of analysts from FNArena’s surveys. Any bad days for markets should prove to be buying opportunities.
Just when you thought it might have been safe to wade back into the tricky ‘waters’ of the stock market...
In response to a subscriber’s question during last week’s Boom, Doom, Zoom! that we hold each Thursday at noon, here are 5 stocks that look like good value at the moment, or should be jumped on with a market pullback.
Selling in May to go away hasn’t been the smart strategy so far, with our S&P/ASX 200 up around 3% since May 1.
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