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Earnings Trump 'Blue Book' and Housing Starts

Thu, Apr 17 2008, 08:16 GMT
by Carley Garner

Alaron


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Stocks surprised many with a sharp rally into seemingly negative news. Following yesterday’s close, I was of the opinion that we were due for a small market bounce before resuming the down-trend. Today I am rethinking my assessment and am content to recommend clients to be on the sidelines (sorry to be such a bore but if your goal is to make money this is the best position to be in). Only time will tell if this rally is substantial, or simply a by-product of option expiration. Also leaving me somewhat hesitant to jump on the band-wagon is the idea that the equity market often suffers greatly in the week following the tax-deadline.

Poor housing starts, a Beige Book that should be renamed the “Blue Book” and unruly energy prices all seemed to be overshadowed by positive earnings. Positive numbers from firms such as Intel, JP Morgan and Coca Cola were able to trigger equity buying in the midst of what the bears may have believed was the “perfect storm” of negativity.

“You have a combination of JPMorgan and all these other strong earnings out there from a broad range of sectors, and that’s helping the buying we’re seeing,” said Todd Salamone the director of trading and vice president of research at Schaeffer’s Investment Research. He added, “There’s an unwinding of all the negativity that we saw ahead of the earnings season.”

Today’s close above 12,456 suggests that the June Dow is poised to move higher to 12,771….but I wouldn’t be willing to put my money where my mouth is. I do believe that we are in the vicinity of what 6 months from now will be looked at as a major low, but I am not convinced that the worst is over just yet.

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