SDS News and Press, ProShares UltraShort S&P500 From 05/16/23

2023-05-16 16:30:00 ET Summary Federal Reserve tightening cycles, without exception, have been associated with financial crises. Tightening lending standards, which has historically led to an economic downturn, is raising the likelihood of a recession. The bank failures may ma...

2023-05-16 10:30:00 ET Summary Looking forward to the end of 2023, expectations for the index's future earnings per share have increased from $199.28 to $203.50. Earnings at that level would correspond to a full recovery to the level of earnings recorded in March 2022, which marks...

2023-05-16 02:35:00 ET Summary The current economic and investing environment remains one of the most challenging and difficult to navigate in recent times. With inflation and wage growth at current levels, we likely require a material amount of pain to be felt within the equity a...

2023-05-15 14:35:00 ET Summary The financial sector hasn’t seen much degradation of its expected 2023 growth rate of +13%, even with the regional bank issues. Despite the headlines, negative EPS revisions for the energy sector have been far worse than for the financial sect...

2023-05-15 13:49:00 ET Summary After the previous week's Fed-driven volatile action, investors got some relief in the second week of May 2023. Despite the relative stillness, there wasn't enough positive news to offset the negative to boost the U.S. stock market higher. The ma...

2023-05-15 05:18:00 ET Summary The economic slowdown, while clear and persistent, has been mild, so far. The current consensus S&P 500 Index earnings estimate for calendar year 2023 is $220 per share, which gives a forward price-to-earnings multiple of 19 times. We think i...

2023-05-13 09:13:00 ET Summary The shortest pauses in a 30-year period were the six months time-out in 1995 and the eight month wait-and-see in 2019. The pause periods that began in 1997 and 2006, by contrast, lasted more than a year. When the Greenspan Fed began raising rates...

2023-05-12 07:11:35 ET Summary This is a technical analysis article. As the debt ceiling game plays out, we think the market goes down, so we have used excess cash in our Model Portfolio to swing trade using the SDS. As you know, the SDS goes up when the SPY goes down. We think th...

2023-05-11 03:00:00 ET Summary In its effort to tame inflation, the U.S. Federal Reserve is likely to pause at the top of its interest rate cycle rather than quickly pivot toward rate cuts. But in either scenario, history suggests fixed income can offer attractive return potential, es...

2023-05-10 16:06:00 ET Summary Why a potential recession hasn't arrived yet and may not be as bad as expected? The latest corporate earnings haven't been strong, but are outperforming. Why many of last year's headwinds haven't materialized for markets? The la...