December 9, 2018
Weekly Market Outlook
By Keith Schneider
The trade war with China is heating up, while France is melting down and both are not good indicators for the global economy.
Luxury living in Paris has been reduced to living with a gas mask as our friends photo sent to us this Saturday attests to.
US equites continued its wild ride, going from deeply oversold to overbought and back to oversold where it currently sits when measured on a short-term basis.
U.S. Stocks ended down -4% on average for the week, putting the Russell 2000 down -5.5% for the year. This is not a big surprise as tariffs have hit domestic companies the hardest. These smaller companies are not in a strong position to weather the storm.
Fang stocks including Apple have not fared well either with Apple giving up all it gains for 2018.
Domestically, indictments for Cohen and Manafort are coming to a head and the fallout for President Trump is yet to play out.
The Fed is backing off on more raises based on weaker job growth and a very shaky stock market.
The selloff has been exacerbated by Trump’s tweets attacking the new Fed Chiefs aggressive policies.
This week’s takeaways are:
All in all, the picture for global equities is eroding and finding decent safe havens is getting harder to find.
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