Morning Commentary
Headline news:
Markets are set to open higher with S&P 500 futures up 7.30 points to start the day. China announced that its economy grew a 6.4% pace in the first quarter, dampening slowdown expectations of a global slowdown. Earnings continue to come in mixed, but better than expected.
Markets:
The S&P 500 had another day trading inside a small range of 2900.86-28963.48 with above-average volume. We like the trading action, and we continue to believe the index will potentially test the all-time high of 2926.29 set on 10/5/2018 soon. RSI is, still, not at an overbought level which shows the market has room to move higher.
Economy:
U.S. Industrial Production came in at -0.1% for March which was on the low end of expectations and lower than the prior report of 0.1%. the Housing Market Index came out in line at 63 and above the prior report of 62. The Redbook report came in 5.0% and above prior which was at 4.8%. The Redbook report is a measure of comparable same stores sales at chain stores, discounters, and departments stores.
We are currently long term bullish and short term bullish.
John N. Lilly III
Accredited Portfolio Management Advisor℠
Accredited Asset Management Specialist℠
Portfolio Manager, RJ
Partner, Windsor Wealth
Windsor Wealth
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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