Daily Commentary
Headline News:
U.S. stock futures are set to open higher after a surprise quarterly profit for Disney (DIS) has the stock higher by6.6% in pre-market trading. CVS Health Corp (CVS) raised its full-year profit forecast and was also higher by 3% to start the day. U.S. stock markets have benefited from better-than-expected corporate Q2 results and a renewed technology rally have fueled the recent rally. Also, U.S. private payrolls increased by 167,000 in July, and the economic focus now will turn to the ISM non-manufacturing survey due later today.
Markets:
The S&P 500 rallied to a new short term high of 3306.51 and is now solidly above potential support 3279.33. However, the volume was again only average, so we still want to see a move higher with above-average volume to start a new uptrend. RSI is in an uptrend after breaking out of a trading range and now supports a potential move to new highs. We continue to believe a new uptrend is now in place, and a test of the old highs at 3386016 on 2/19/20 can possibly be tested soon.
We are currently long-term bullish and short-term bullish.
John N. Lilly III CPFA
Accredited Portfolio Management Advisor℠
Accredited Asset Management Specialist℠
Portfolio Manager, RJ
Partner, DJWMG
Windsor Wealth Planners & Strategist
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The Relative Strength Index (RSI), developed by J. Welles Wilder, is a momentum oscillator that measures the speed and changes of price movements.
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.The national employment report from Automated Data Processing Inc. is computed from ADP records that represent approximately 400,000 U.S. business clients and approximately 23 million U.S. employees working in all private industrial sectors. ADP contracted with Moody’s Analytics to compute a monthly report that would ultimately help to predict monthly nonfarm payrolls from the Bureau of Labor Statistic’s employment situation. The ADP report only covers private (excluding government) payrolls.
The Institute For Supply Management surveys more than 375 firms from numerous sectors across the United States for its non-manufacturing index. This index covers services, construction, mining, agriculture, forestry, and fishing and hunting. The non-manufacturing composite index has four equally weighted components: business activity (closely related to a production index), new orders, employment, and supplier deliveries (also known as vendor performance). The first three components are seasonally adjusted but the supplier deliveries index does not have statistically significant seasonality and is not adjusted. For the composite index, a reading above 50 percent indicates that the non-manufacturing economy is generally expanding; below 50 percent indicates that it is generally declining. The supplier deliveries component index requires extra explanation. A reading above 50 percent indicates slower deliveries and below 50 percent indicates faster deliveries. However, slower deliveries are a plus for the economy — indicating demand is up and vendors are not able to fill orders as quickly.