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John Hancock: Weekly Market Recap Week Ended November 22nd
GDP ahead One of this week’s most closely watched reports is likely to be Wednesday’s update of third-quarter GDP growth. The government’s initial estimate in late October pegged last quarter’s growth at 1.9%—a notch below the second quarter’s 2.0% pace, and far below the first quarter’s 3.1% figure. Yields fall U.S. government bond […]
John Hancock: Weekly Market Recap Week Ended November 8th
Consumer contentment With holiday shopping around the corner, a gauge of U.S. consumer sentiment rose, easing concerns about prospects of a recession. The University of Michigan said on Friday that its preliminary index of November consumer sentiment was up slightly from the previous month. Earnings outlook While third-quarter earnings results continued to come […]
John Hancock: Weekly Market Recap Week Ended September 13th
Consumer comeback A pair of economic reports released on Friday indicated that U.S. consumer confidence has recovered somewhat from a recent slump. Monthly retail sales exceeded most economists’ expectations and the University of Michigan’s monthly consumer confidence index recorded a sharp gain. Anxiety eases The U.S. stock market’s near recovery from August’s decline has […]
John Hancock: Weekly Market Recap Week Ended September 6th
Recovery path U.S. stocks maintained the previous week’s positive momentum, regaining more of the ground lost in a four-week string of declines. With the latest week’s gain of nearly 2%, the S&P 500 was within 2% of its record high set in late July. Q2 earnings review Data on the recently concluded earnings […]
John Hancock: Weekly Market Recap Week Ended July 26th
Earnings ramp up Quarterly earnings season is entering its busiest week, and the vast majority of companies that have reported results so far exceeded analysts’ expectations. Among S&P 500 companies that had released second-quarter numbers as of Friday, 77% had topped forecasts, exceeding the average earnings beat rate of the past five years, according […]
John Hancock: Weekly Market Recap Week Ended July 12th
Eyes on earnings Corporate earnings could dampen stock market euphoria, as 77% of the companies that have issued second-quarter forecasts projected negative earnings per share growth. Analysts now expect earnings to decline by 2.9% versus a year ago, as slower growth and the cost of tariffs on U.S. businesses are tallied. Trade back on […]
John Hancock: Weekly Market Recap Week Ended May 3rd
Fast start April’s 3.9% rise in the S&P 500 lifted the index’s gain through the first four months of the year to 17.5%—the stock market’s best start to a year since 1987, according to S&P Dow Jones Indices. The Dow’s April gain was 2.6%; the NASDAQ added 4.7%. Jobs engine The nation’s unemployment rate has […]
John Hancock: Weekly Market Recap Week Ended April 5th
Approaching records The rally that started in late December has returned stocks close to the record heights reached more than six months ago. As of Friday, the S&P 500 and Dow were both around 1.5% shy of their records, while the NASDAQ was about 2.1% below its peak. Jobs recovery Stocks rose on […]
John Hancock: Weekly Market Recap Week Ended March 22nd
Freaky Friday Stocks were having a mostly positive week until the market swiftly reversed course on Friday amid further signs of a global growth slowdown and an inversion in the U.S. Treasury bond yield curve. The major U.S. stock indexes dropped around 2%, as did indexes in France, the United Kingdom, and Germany. […]
John Hancock: Weekly Market Recap Week Ended February 15th
Bullish comeback While market gains have been modest in recent weeks, they’ve been impressive taken as a whole. Since stocks sank to a recent low on December 24, the S&P 500 and Dow have both risen around 18%. The NASDAQ has added nearly 21%, exiting a bear market that it entered in late December. […]