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The Greek's Week Ahead - The Last Nail in the Coffin
The Greek's Week Ahead has been engineered to prepare you for the events that could impact your portfolio this week.
Just when you thought it could not get any worse, someone goes and finds that last nail to put in your coffin. That's life isn't it? I don't know who said it best, Frank Sinatra or Rocky Balboa, but it can always get worse can't it. Your best friend can let you down and your dog can bite you in the ass when you turn your back. Last week, not to our surprise but clearly to the market's shock, Caterpillar ( Traders are a superstitious lot, so it would not have taken much more than that to get the paper walls of the market's recent rise crumbling Friday. Still, the market was also digesting Honeywell's ( If the market could not rely on the so called "global economy" or the consumer he had already begun to worry about, then what could he believe in? Well, maybe Ben Bernanke of all people. Treasury securities that had previously forecast just a small chance of a Fed follow up easing in a week, were now pricing in the strong likelihood of one. We are raising the odds here at the Greek as well. There may now be a 50/50 chance of a 25 basis point move on Halloween, but ironically, this decreased certainty could empower Fed inaction in driving the market sharply lower on the 31st. Increased expectation also increases impetus. The Week Ahead... Monday will most certainly start tentatively, considering Friday's frightening falloff. International market activity, and especially that of Mainland Chinese markets, will be closely monitored for U.S. market inspired decline. The annual meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund could offer some news, as could addresses from Fed Governor Randall Kroszner and Fed President Charles Evans. Earnings season will get right back into full swing, with notable reports from Apple ( The full schedule includes Albemarle Corporation (NYSE: The International Council of Shopping Centers - UBS produces its weekly same-store sales report on Tuesday, and we continue to be attentive to changes in consumer spending. Last week's year-over-year growth measure of 2.5% ticked up slightly from the week before it, but the trend was still far below last year's growth rate. With oil prices involved in a mad race to $90, we see no reason to expect increased consumer spending, especially if oil prices hold and allow gasoline prices to catch up. At 10:00 AM, State Street will report its Investor Confidence Index for October. Considering the market's reaction to the Fed's September rate cut, we expect October's confidence reading to exceed September's result of 92.1. Remember, State Street measures the amount of risk carried in portfolios, and relates it to investor confidence. This month's figure is meaningless to us, as the Fed's Halloween meeting should decide the direction of stocks and capital flow into or out of stocks thereafter. Wal-Mart ( Tuesday's extensive earnings schedule includes: 1-800-FLOWERS.COM (Nasdaq: CTS Corp. (NYSE: Millicom International Cellular S.A. (Nasdaq: StockerYale (Nasdaq: On Wednesday morning, the regular Purchase Applications Report from the Mortgage Bankers Association will be followed up by September Existing Home Sales. Recall, the existing homes market dwarfs new homes and is all the more important a barometer to measure the degree of illness in housing. Bloomberg's consensus of economists is looking for sales running at an annual pace of 5.3 million. That's down from August's pace of 5.5 million. Remember earlier this year when economists were worried about the six month supply of homes? Well it's now up to 10 months, so prices are very likely to continue lower, which means a good degree of home equity is still to be lost. At 10:30, the Energy Information Administration will report on oil inventories, but as long as 60,000 Turkish troops continue to trade fire with Kurdish rebels on the border and President Bush continues to speak of World War III, nothing else matters. However, the longer oil prices hold high, the more likelihood gasoline prices will rise, adding more pressure to the global consumer, and that includes you. Wednesday's earnings schedule is not any lighter than Tuesday's. Some of the day's more popular reports are likely to emanate from Merrill Lynch ( After posting a surprise uptick last week, investor concern will be keenly focused on the Weekly Initial Jobless Claims Report. Bloomberg's consensus of economists forecasts new benefits filers will amount to 320,000, versus 337,000 last week. Another data point expected to improve on Thursday is the Durable Goods Orders Report. Economists polled by Bloomberg see durable goods order growth of 1.8% in September, after a 4.9% decline in August. New Home Sales are set for reporting at 10:00 AM, and the consensus sees the annual pace at 770,000 in September, compared to 795,000 in August and 937,000 in January. The EIA will report natural gas inventories as the fall heating season proceeds at a slow pace in the Northeast and through much of the country. Still, prices remain pressured by geopolitcal events and natural gas' increasing substitution, and potential for substitution should oil supplies become restricted in any way. In the heart of earnings season, Thursday's schedule includes Baidu ( On Friday, the final Michigan Sentiment reading is expected unchanged, at 82, the lowest point of the year. Also, Apple ( Please support our effort by visiting the site and supporting our advertisers. 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The Greek's Week Ahead - The Growth Hoax
The Greek's Week Ahead has been engineered to prepare you for the events that could impact your portfolio this week.
At times like these, when the Fed seeks to stimulate economic growth, the sector that should benefit most is growth oriented and "low quality" shares in our view. However, we view the current market environment illusory, and providing a sort of growth hoax that we expect will be exposed after the Fed's Halloween meeting. Expansionary measures are meant to help firms find capital to finance growth at times when a little extra incentive is useful. In that type of environment, the firms that benefit most are the ones financing growth in ways other than through the use of operating cash flow. These are riskier firms, the kind without earnings but with high hopes and debt. At the risk of getting too technical... They benefit also because most, if not all, of their value is found in the terminal portion of the discounted cash flow model, the part outside of the forecast period and most sensitive to changes in cost of capital. In the period after the start of the Fed's most recent expansionary spurring, you remember the one after the tech bubble burst in 2000-2002, there was an initial premature market rebound before the realization of a tough environment sent stocks lower. However in 2003, when it was clear Fed support would help the economy find traction, it was the "low quality" shares that outperformed. That period taught me a lesson that I noted well. I learned that lesson as I watched a sell recommendation rise ahead of many of my better run "buy" names. That sell idea that burned the painful, though useful, memory into my young analytical skull was FuelCell Technology ( The current period is considered by many, if not most, as one characterized by the start of Fed expansionary efforts, and this may be behind the outperformance of "riskier" industries of late. For instance, the S&P Biotechnology group is up 10.3% in the 13 weeks through October 5. Over that same 13 week period, the Information Technology sector (+4.9%) is second in performance only to energy (+5.5%), but $80+ oil has a lot to do with that sector's leadership. I believe the rug (or ruse) of Fed bias is about to be pulled out from under the market. If this latest Fed maneuver is representative of a "one and done" type move, as I outlined on the day of the cut, then the current market run may be short-lived for these names. The hoax would be exposed and the old favorite defensive names would come back to favor, while riskier stocks would lose their luster just as they were starting to polish up. The way to play this sometime between my publishing of this article and a week ahead of Halloween, is to go short the industries that got hot around the cut, and long the names that got cold around that same time. Now let's take a look at the week ahead... Outside of earnings season revving up into full swing, a rather light event week kicks off Monday with the 8:30 a.m. EDT reporting of the Empire State Manufacturing Index. The October measure of the state of manufacturing in the New York area is seen reaching 12.5 in October, down from September's reading of 14.7, according to Bloomberg's consensus of economists. Last month's figure was a significant disappointment, with expectations for a reading of 20. The day marks the debut of CNBC's new formidable rival, the Fox Business Network. Markets will be closed in Argentina, Chile and Columbia, marking Columbus Day. I guess it took him a few more days to discover South America? Did you know he landed first in the Bahamas? In the evening, Ben Bernanke will keep some economists attuned to the wire as he speaks to the Economic Club of New York, no doubt over a New York strip steak. Monday's earnings slate is headlined by Citigroup ( Others reporting on Monday include Alfacel (
In light of the approaching Federal Open Market Committee meeting on Halloween, be sure to catch Tuesday's weekly same-store sales report from the International Council of Shopping Centers-UBS. Last week's report showed very soft year-to-year sales growth of just 2.1%, and the retail sales report for September showed misleading strength inflated by transactions of expensive gasoline and unexplained auto sales improvement.
Industrial Production for the month of September is expected to increase 0.1%, according to Bloomberg's consensus. That's down from last month's 0.2% increase and July's 0.3% growth. Economists are still figuring out whether this trend is indicative of cautious production ahead of softening domestic end-demand, or change driven by real economic downturn today. Capacity utilization is seen slipping just modestly though, to 82.1% from 82.2%. Treasury International Capital for the month of August is set for report Tuesday. Foreign demand for long-term U.S. securities dipped in the last report to $19.2 billion in July, from $120.9 billion in June. With the dollar sinking, one would expect September's report to show up weak, no matter what happened in August. This is likely something the Federal Reserve will pay attention to, and certainly the Treasury Secretary will. Speaking of the dollar, the Bank of Canada is set to decide what to do with its interest rates, and given signs of Canadian economic weakness cited in the FOMC meeting minutes released last week, we would not expect action detrimental to the U.S. dollar relationship. The National Association of Homebuilders' Housing Market Index is expected to set a new all-time low in October, according to Barron's and Lehman Brothers, after its recent record breaking bottom of 20 in September of this year. Tuesday's earnings report schedule will be headlined by a couple of tech giants, as Intel ( The rest of the day's earnings reporters include A.O. Smith (
On Wednesday, we'll get a look at how higher producer prices may have impacted consumer prices. It's more likely that higher energy prices found their way into the Core CPI figure than they did in the Core PPI, reported last week up just 0.1%. The headline PPI measure was up 1.1% on changes in food and energy prices. Regarding the September CPI metric, Bloomberg's consensus expects a 0.2% increase across the board. While it's not the Fed favored metric, pay close attention to whether the year-over-year CPI growth fits into the Fed tolerable range of 1%-2%. September Housing Starts are expected to fall to a 1.3 million annual pace, down from August's 1.33 million, thus continuing the well-documented slide of housing. On that note, the Mortgage Bankers Association makes its regular Purchase Applications report early Wednesday, but it will likely be muted by the more important Housing Starts data. With oil rising against all odds, at least on the Greek's book, the EIA will report its regular inventory data at the usual 10:30 time. You would think that with the economy slowing, oil prices should trim some fat, but as the dollar weakens, the relative value of commodities rise. At 2:00 p.m. the obscure sounding but actually important Beige Book will display a compilation of the Fed's regional reports. Much can be gleaned here about how the Fed is thinking heading into the Halloween meeting. We may get some anecdotal evidence about the state of employment on Wednesday, with the simultaneous earnings reports from Labor Ready ( The remainder of Wednesday's earnings reports include Abbott Labs (
On Thursday, Weekly Initial Jobless Claims are seen measuring 312,000 in the Labor Department's latest reporting. Last week, the list of new benefits filers amounted to 308,000. Remember, this list does NOT include old slaves to the corporate box, who have been recently converted to babble producing bloggers in an empty box, like muah? Hey, if you can't laugh at yourself, then you probably have not made a blog post at 3 a.m. yet! The Conference Board will produce its Leading Indicators Index still too late for the Fed to use in its new effort to predict economic change (God bless em). The month-to-month change in the figure is expected by Bloomberg's consensus to show increase of 0.3% in September, after a 0.6% decrease in August. The EIA Natural Gas inventory report is due at 10:30, while hurricane season comes to an end. At noon, the Philly Fed Index should show Philadelphia area manufacturing sentiment decreased versus the prior month. Bloomberg published a consensus estimate for a reading of 7.0 this time around, compared to 10.9 in September. Thursday is the day Google ( The remainder of Thursday's earnings schedule includes A. Schulman (
China's H-Shares get a day off, as the Hong Kong market is closed on Friday. The Group of Seven finance minsters is set to meet in Washington at the end of the week, and many experts are anticipating pressure on Treasury Secretary Paulson to do something about the troubled dollar. William Poole and Ben Bernanke will address a group together on Friday, as they discuss "Monetary Policy Under Uncertainty." We wonder if Mr. Poole will define his usage of the word "calamity" and if he understands now when and when not to use such language. Reporting earnings at the week's close, look for news from Dow global growth stories, Caterpillar ( If you would like to advertise in the space below our articles, we are now offering tailored plans, including assistance in ad design. Contact us at WallStreetGreek@gmail.com to find out more. (disclosure)
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