🙃Earnings Season Could Offset the Current Market Fears🙃

Good morning. Earnings season offers a big opportunity for markets to move in either direction... It’s the monthly jobs numbers today and they’re not going to be pretty and will be possibly the tip of the iceberg as we head into May. [Trading Tips] Good morning. Earnings season offers a big opportunity for markets to move in either direction. With the market currently contending with the issues that come from rising interest rates, and the latest Covid variant (which Bill Gates say may be the last before Covid becomes more seasonal like the flu), this quarterly earnings report could be a make-or-break. While the data from the last quarter of 2021 are already in the rear-view mirror, early indications are that overall earnings for the S&P 500 are up 49 percent. That’s hugely bullish, and some industries are likely to move higher no matter what happens to the overall economy in the coming year. Traders will likely have some great opportunities going into this earnings season, and to find some bargains among companies that performed well but haven’t been treated well from the market lately. Now here's the rest of the news: Sponsored Content [Final Month to Invest in the Company Revolutionizing Joint Replacement]( The joint reconstruction market currently sits at $19.6B (and growing). Yet, up to a third of total-knee arthroplasty recipients still experience chronic pain post-operatively. [Monogram]( understands that precision implants and precision insertion are the future of orthopedics, so they designed a workflow for unwavering efficiency and accuracy. In fact, Monogram’s robot arm is the only navigated arm with a cutting end-effector, which they believe will be the first tracked active navigated arm on the market. Monogram’s key competitive advantage will be its ability to rapidly produce [custom, robotically inserted orthopedic implants]( at scale. And seeing that the company has already raised a cool $26M, now’s a pivotal time to join them in the future of orthopedics. The final day to invest is January 27. [Get in right here.]( MARKETS DOW 36,113.95 -0.49% S&P 4,659.08 -1.42% NASDAQ 14,806.81 -2.51% *As of market close • Markets dropped sharply on Thursday, in a broad selloff heaviest for tech. • Oil declined 1.4 percent, closing at $81.50 per barrel. • Gold dipped 0.3 percent, ending the day at $1,821 per ounce. • Cryptocurrencies dropped, with Bitcoin trading at $42,732 at the stock market close. Today’s TOP TIPS [In a Bull Market, The Most Hated Stock in a Sector Can Prove a Big Winner]( Markets are fearful of inflation right now, as well as constraints from supply chain issues. That’s driving up the prices of commodities, some of which already had to deal with an imbalance between supply and demand. For investors, buying one of the worst-performing names in a sector undergoing a bull market with strong fundamentals can lead to better returns than buying a safer and more blue-chip name in the space. » [FULL STORY]( [Insider Trading Report: Petco Health & Wellness (WOOF)]( Ron Coughlin, CEO & Chairman of Petco Health & Wellness (WOOF) recently bought 23,290 shares. The buy increased his holdings by just over 9 percent, and came to a total price of $400,000. The CEO has made two prior buys in September 2021, each for 46,600 shares. The company CFO and another insider have also been buyers in the past two months, with the only insider sales since the company went public coming from some major fundholders. » [FULL STORY]( [Unusual Options Activity: Freeport-McMoRan (FCX)]( Shares of commodity producer Freeport-McMoRan (FCX) have been moving higher in recent sessions, and are nearly back to 52-week highs. One trader sees that trend continuing higher in the next month. That’s based on the February 18 $46 call. With 35 days until expiration, 81,983 contracts traded against a prior open interest of 235, for a 349-fold explosion in volume on the trade. The buyer of the calls paid $2.19 to get in. » [FULL STORY]( IN OTHER NEWS • [Jobless Claims Rise]( First-time claims for unemployment rose to 230,000 last week, a slight rise of 23,000 from the prior week’s data according to the Labor Department. That’s slightly higher than expectations for 205,000 claims, and a sign that the labor market remains tight. • [Mortgage Rates Rise to Pre-Pandemic Levels]( Rates for a 30-year fixed rate mortgage hit 3.45 percent. That’s the highest level since March 2020 before the start of the pandemic, and a big jump from the 3.22 percent a week ago. Rising mortgage rates may slow homebuying, which in turn could lead to a slowdown in home prices, which have been moving higher at a record pace. • [Wholesale Prices Rise 9.7 Percent in 2021]( The producer price index increased 0.2 percent in December, at just half the expected rise of 0.4 percent. In spite of that better-than-expected number, the PPI still rose 9.7 percent for all of 2021, a record rise for that index and a sign that inflation is still running hot. • [Virgin Galactic Drops on Debt Issuance]( Commercial spaceflight company Virgin Galactic (SPCE) saw shares drop as the company announced that it was raising another $425 million in debt. The debt is being issued in a private offering, and is being used to fund further projects in making commercial spaceflight a reality. • [Instacart Expanding Ready Meals Program]( Privately-held Instacart is building a “Ready Meals” hub to expand ready-made meals from grocery stores on its app. The company has had the program for 2 years, but the function hasn’t been as big a hit as hoped, even as there has been an explosion in online shopping and delivery for groceries. S&P 500 MOVERS TOP KR 4.784% BIIB 4.591% AAL 4.432% GPS 3.972% NCLH 3.713% BOTTOM NOW 9.092% LUMN 7.374% TECH 6.818% DXCM 6.613% TSLA 6.335% Quote of the Day What we are excited about is earnings season is right around the corner. We expect another solid showing by corporate America, while it will also be a chance to stop focusing so much on the Fed and policy, but instead get under the hood and see how the economy is really doing. - Ryan Detrick, LPL Financial, on why the upcoming earnings season should give a boost to the stock market as corporate America shows some strength from the holiday season. Sponsored Content [Final Month to Invest in the Company Revolutionizing Joint Replacement]( The joint reconstruction market currently sits at $19.6B (and growing). Yet, up to a third of total-knee arthroplasty recipients still experience chronic pain post-operatively. [Monogram]( understands that precision implants and precision insertion are the future of orthopedics, so they designed a workflow for unwavering efficiency and accuracy. In fact, Monogram’s robot arm is the only navigated arm with a cutting end-effector, which they believe will be the first tracked active navigated arm on the market. 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