Yardeni QuickTakes (Page 7)

ECONOMIC WEEK AHEAD: May 5–9

May 4, 2025 3 min read

US employers are confounding the naysayers–and complicating the Federal Reserve's decision this week. It's no secret that President Donald Trump wants the Federal Open Market Committee to cut interest rates at its May 6-7 meeting. Yet the economy isn't cooperating, as companies added a robust 177,000 jobs in April (chart). US average hourly earnings, meanwhile, are up 3.8% over the past

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MARKET CALL: ‘Mission Control, We Have Thrust’

May 4, 2025 4 min read paid

Today, we are lowering our subjective odds of a recession from 45% to 35% following last week's news that China and the US might be moving toward starting trade negotiations. We also remain impressed with the resilience of the US economy following Friday's employment report. However, we are not raising our 6000 year-end target for the S&P 500. Our QuickTakes dated April 24 was

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Year Of The Snake

May 2, 2025 3 min read

Stock prices soared today on a better-than-expected April US employment report and news that China is evaluating US overtures to start trade negotiations. In the Chinese zodiac, 2025 is the Year of the Snake. It began on January 29, 2025. It is shaping up to be a bad year for China's economy. We've been thinking that the Chinese are less likely to blink than President Donald

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Is The Economy On The Edge?

May 1, 2025 3 min read

The good news is that the Magnificent-7 are still magnificent. Three of them (Alphabet, Meta, and Microsoft) beat earnings expectations for Q1. We've been arguing that while AI may or may not make money for the providers of Large Language Models, the result will be more demand for cloud computing. That should be good news for at least four of the Mag-7. The bad news is that recent

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US Economy Is Tariffied

Apr 30, 2025 3 min read paid

President Donald Trump's Tariff Turmoil (TTT) is certainly upsetting global trade relations and confusing financial markets. This is all having an effect on the US economy, as evidenced by today's Q1 GDP report. The S&P 500 fell sharply in the morning when the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that real GDP fell 0.3% (saar) (chart). By the end of the day, the

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Dr Ed's Video Webcast 4/30/25

Apr 30, 2025 1 min read paid

Anatomy Of A Correction A dovish faction has been forming within the Federal Reserve Board, dissenting from Chief Powell’s hawkish party line. Rather than wait and see whether tariffs deliver greater blows to the economic or the inflation outlook before changing monetary-policy course, the doves claim that the economy is more vulnerable and espouse lowering the federal funds rate sooner rather than later. Dr Ed sides with Powell &

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Consumers Go Shopping To Beat Depression & Tariffs

Apr 29, 2025 3 min read paid

Stock prices rose and bond yields edged lower today on hopes that the Trump administration will soon start to deliver trade deals and the Fed might deliver cuts in the federal funds rate if the labor market shows signs of weakening. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said today that the administration has its first trade deal, but it is not fully finalized. He declined to name the country involved (Freedonia?). Today&

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Bonds Are Stirred, Not Shaken

Apr 28, 2025 3 min read paid

The S&P 500 is down roughly 10% from its record high on February 19. Considering Trump's Tariff Turmoil (TTT), that's not too bad. Also recall all the angst unleashed when the 10-year US Treasury bond yield spiked from 4.00% to 4.50% right after President Donald Trump announced his "Liberation Day" reciprocal tariffs. Now it is back down to 4.20%

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ECONOMIC WEEK AHEAD: April 28–May 2

Apr 27, 2025 3 min read paid

The week ahead is jampacked with economic updates. The headliners will be Q1's GDP and March's personal income and expenditures (both Wed) as well as April's payroll employment (Fri). We're expecting relatively strong employment data, which should highlight the US economy's resilience notwithstanding Trump's Tariff Turmoil (TTT). The week's inflation indicators likely remained subdued, although tariff-related

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MARKET CALL: Death Cross Versus Zweig Breadth Thrust

Apr 27, 2025 4 min read

Only a few days ago, some stock-market-chart watchers warned that Trump's Tariff Turmoil (TTT) set up a bearish Death Cross formation in the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100. That occurs when the 50-day moving average crosses below the 200-day moving average (chart). The formation historically has signaled declines ahead, but not all Death Crosses have preceded major downturns. Now some market watchers are seeing a bullish

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DEEP DIVE: Trump Retreats On Terminating Powell

Apr 26, 2025 4 min read paid

This is an excerpt from Yardeni Research Morning Briefing dated Monday, April 22, 2025. President Trump has been frustrated by Fed Chair Jerome Powell since Trump’s first term in the White House. Trump nominated Powell to serve as Fed chair in 2017, replacing Janet Yellen. However, he soon soured on his pick, repeatedly attacking Powell on Twitter for raising interest rates too quickly. In 2018, Trump was so frustrated

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Strongest Buy Signal Ever?

Apr 24, 2025 3 min read paid

On Sunday (April 20), we observed that The Economist had just featured three consecutive very bearish cover stories suggesting that the dollar might be on the verge of collapse and that so might the US stock and bond markets along with the US economy. Make that four consecutive bearish cover stories, with this week's magazine showing an eagle battered by Trump's first 100 days (image). We

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