Gloom, not doom. That’s how you could sum up new research from Goldman Sachs Chief U.S. Equity Strategist David Kostin, which came out late Friday night and is the talk of Wall Street as we start the new week. The first line of the note reads: “We estimate the S & P 500 will deliver…
Credit the index funds. They sop up the cash and distribute the money like a weighted-stock trampoline, jumping in the moment of a decline, desperate money seeking a home and finding it in the S & P 500 . It’s unseen because it comes in hidden over the transom. The Vanguard S & P 500…
Something different happened Friday – so different that it took my breath away. The first Friday of earnings season has recently been such a jumble of tension that we had forgotten what it’s like to have multiple big quarters reported in the morning. But that was exactly what we got. It was surreal. BlackRock reported…
After all of these years, after all of the rather incredible rallies and gains in the stock market from so many groups, the typical morning still starts with a bevy of negativity. That gloom lasts until near the close, where the market seems to say, “Oh well, maybe things aren’t that bad, at least for…
It always turns out the same way: No matter what people might say, the beginning of an interest rate cycle always causes a change in command in the stock market. You must always change your mind, hold your nose, and buy what look to be some of the weakest names — the stocks that do…
It’s time for some of my reflections on a week in San Francisco talking to dozens of executives and workers in tech. It was a grueling trip, but a necessary one, because we are at a pivotal time when it comes to the revolution of artificial intelligence and accelerated computing. AI gets talked about a…
Before taping a Friday “Mad Money,” I always look at the week’s market performance just in case the percentages are noteworthy. They usually aren’t. But this week things were different, very different. The S & P 500 and the Nasdaq had their best weekly gains of 2024, gains that made up for the prior week, which…