Megacap tech earnings continue to roll in, and Thursday’s report is a bit of a mixed bag. AMZN is doing well while AAPL stalls out, and while these will be two important names to key off of on Friday there’s a bigger theme we want to be aware of that may put pressure on all of it.
The huge spike in yields is a huge long-term danger sign, but many markets are oversold at support.
In this video, we review today’s market action and the big flush lower. We ended the day 63 points lower in the SPX and 2.20 higher in the VIX and 10- and 30-year bond yields higher. The good news is that we did hit and hold support levels around SPX 4500, so now we need to see if these levels are going to hold and we bounce, or do we roll over from here?
When there is news that affects the technology sector, you will see that ripple into the S&P. With Fitch lowering the US credit rating, we saw a significant decline in the Nasdaq today. Joe discusses how to trade the indices when there is news like we had today.
