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“Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.” – Ted Williams

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Futures are getting a bit of a boost this morning as revised GDP for Q2 was slightly weaker than expected coming in at 2.1% versus forecasts for a reading of 2.2%. Other data saw some larger moves.  Personal Consumption was more than cut in half from 1.7% down to 0.8% while the GDP Price Index was revised down to 1.7% from 2.0%.  Initial Jobless Claims rose 3K from 201K up to 204K, but that was still more than 10K below the consensus forecasts. Overall, this data was market friendly pushing equity futures higher and yields lower.  The 10-year yield which touched 4.65% earlier is now slightly below 4.61%.

In a meaningless doubleheader to close out the MLB season 82 years ago, Ted Williams got six meaningful hits in eight at-bats pushing his average to .406 becoming the first player since 1930 and the last player since then to hit .400 (Williams also hit a home run on his last career at-bat on this day 19 years later in 1960).  Hitting .400 is next to impossible in baseball (hence the quote above), but in the stock market it isn’t very good.  Heading into today’s trading, the S&P 500 has traded higher on just eight out of eighteen sessions which works out to 44.4% of all trading days, but if the last two trading days are negative, September will finish off as a .400 month. If that happens, we’ll just call it Ted Williams month!

There hasn’t been a lot of good news to speak of lately, but maybe the image from our Seasonality snapshot below will brighten your mood a bit. While the upcoming week ranks in just the 29th percentile of all one-week periods throughout the year, the next month ranks in the 89th percentile, and the next three months rank in the 100th percentile.  History doesn’t always repeat itself, but from a seasonality perspective, it doesn’t get much better than that!

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