May 13, 2025
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“Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.” – John D. Rockefeller
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The S&P 500 rose 3.26% to start the week, which was its biggest Monday gain since April 6th, 2020 when the index rose 7.0% on weekend headlines that the rate of COVID infections was slowing and lockdowns might start to ease.
Yesterday’s rally was driven by an agreement between the US and China to pause steep reciprocal tariffs of 100%+ for at least the next 90 days. The best performing stocks yesterday were names that got hit the hardest during the post-“Liberation Day” crash from April 2nd to April 8th. The worst were the ones that held up best during the Trump-tariff crash. You can see this in the chart below that breaks the S&P into deciles (10 groups of 50 stocks each) based on performance from 4/2 to 4/8. The bars show the average performance yesterday of the stocks in each decile. The three deciles of stocks that did the worst during the tariff crash from 4/2 to 4/8 saw average gains of more than 5% yesterday. The 50 stocks that held up the best from 4/2 to 4/8 actually fell an average of 0.95% yesterday. This clearly highlights yesterday’s rotation out of tariff resistant names into tariff exposed names.
It has taken a gain of more than 17% off the lows for the S&P 500 to finally tick back up into overbought territory:
May 12, 2025
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“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.” – Cormac McCarthy
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US equity futures are up 3% pre-market on news that the US and China would be pausing tariffs for 90 days after meetings between the two in Geneva over the weekend.
As shown below, SPY is set to open above its March highs and back in positive territory since Election Day last November.
Stocks most dependent on China for cheap imports are soaring this morning. Below is a look at the pre-market moves for stocks in some of the “tariff losers” baskets we’ve highlighted in the last five weeks. Wayfair (W) is up the most at 16.2%, followed by RH (+15.6%) and elf Beauty (+10.2%). Best Buy (BBY), Yeti (YETI) and SharkNinja (SN) are all up 8%+ as well.
May 10, 2025
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May 9, 2025
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“If it’s in the papers, it’s in the price.” – Bill Miller
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Yesterday was the last big day for earnings season with roughly 200 companies posting Q1 numbers. For the next couple of weeks until Walmart (WMT) and NVIDIA (NVDA) wrap things up, we’ll see fewer than 30-40 reports per day.
While we saw a large percentage of companies cutting or pulling guidance in the early weeks of this earnings season in mid-April, things have taken a much more positive turn this month. The big uptick in positive guidance that we’ve seen so far in May has been enough to flip the guidance spread (% of companies raising minus lowering guidance) positive for the full earnings season. Of the 1,551 companies that have reported since the season began on April 10th, 6% have raised guidance versus 5% that have lowered. At the same time, 70% of companies have beaten consensus analyst EPS estimates, while 64% have beaten sales estimates. Q1 has basically been an average to slightly better-than-average earnings season during a period where market volatility and “uncertainty” raged due to President Trump’s tariff policy. In terms of share-price reactions, the average stock that has reported has averaged a one-day gain of 0.34% in reaction to the news. That’s very positive relative to history as well.
