QVML - The S&P 500 Registers Small Dip On Gloomier Economic Outlook
- The S&P 500 mostly drifted sideways during the third week of August 2022, before dipping on Friday, 19 August 2022 to close the week at 4,228.48.
- The dividend futures-based model indicates investors' main quarter of interest continues to be 2023-Q1.
- Whatever news comes out of Jackson Hole in the upcoming week will present investors with an opportunity to shift their focus to the much nearer-term time horizon without greatly affecting the level of stock prices.
The S&P 500 (Index: SPX ) mostly drifted sideways during the third week of August 2022, before dipping on Friday, 19 August 2022 to close the week at 4,228.48.
Here's how that change looks on the latest update to the dividend futures-based model 's alternative futures forecast chart:
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The week held little in the way of market-moving news, with the next big event that might move the market's coming when the members of the Federal Reserve meet at their annual retreat in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The dividend futures-based model indicates investors' main quarter of interest continues to be 2023-Q1. However, we can't help but note that whatever news comes out of Jackson Hole in the upcoming week will present investors with an opportunity to shift their focus to the much nearer-term time horizon without greatly affecting the level of stock prices.
As for the week that was, the small dip in the index level was associated with "recession jitters" in the week's market-moving headlines from Friday, 19 August 2022:
Monday, 15 August 2022
- Signs and portents for the U.S. economy:
- Bigger trouble developing in China:
- Marketmind: Fasten your seat belts
- China new bank loans tumble more than expected amid property jitters
- China new home prices in July unchanged from June, down 0.9% y/y
- China unexpectedly cuts 2 key rates, withdraws cash from banking system
- China to lift Aug fuel exports but 2022 shipments to drop to 7-year lows
- Chinese developers in 'survival mode' slash property investment
- Marketmind: Fasten your seat belts
- Bigger stimulus developing in China:
- Bank of England expected to deliver more rate hikes:
- Wall Street climbs, adding to recent gains as megacaps rise
Tuesday, 16 August 2022
- Signs and portents for the U.S. economy:
- Bigger trouble developing in China:
- Bigger stimulus developing in China:
- Dow, S&P 500 climb as upbeat results from Walmart, others boost optimism
Wednesday, 17 August 2022
- Signs and portents for the U.S. economy:
- Fed minions see inflation, think they're about to start losing money, say more women will go to work:
- Bigger trouble, stimulus developing in China:
- Bigger trouble developing in the U.K.:
- More central banks ramping up more rate hikes:
- ECB minions focusing on regulating cryptocurrency:
- Wall Street ends down, but indexes briefly cut losses after Fed minutes
Thursday, 18 August 2022
- Signs and portents for the U.S. economy:
- Fed minions on a mission to hike rates, only question is by how much:
- Bigger trouble developing in China:
- Bigger trouble developing in the Eurozone:
- ECB minions notice Eurozone inflation hasn't improved:
- Wall St ends higher, Cisco Systems jumps after forecast
Friday, 19 August 2022
- Signs and portents for the U.S. economy:
- Fed minions trying to play coy about plan for more rate hikes:
- Bigger trouble developing in Japan:
- Bigger trouble developing in the Eurozone:
- Bigger stimulus developing in China:
- ECB minions starting to think they'll need to keep hiking rates:
- Wall Street ends down as yields rise; indexes post weekly losses
There was little change in the CME Group's FedWatch Tool 's projections of the Fed's future interest rate hikes to follow last week's action. Investors still expect half-point rate hikes in September 2022 (2022-Q3) and November (2022-Q4), followed by a quarter-point rate hike in December (2022-Q4), with rates topping out in a target range of 3.50-3.75%. The probability of a rate cut is elevated from June 2023 onward but is below 50%.
The Atlanta Fed's GDPNow tool 's forecast for real GDP growth in 2022-Q3 dropped to 1.6%, down from last week's projection of 2.5% growth.
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The S&P 500 Registers Small Dip On Gloomier Economic Outlook