Marketing Bottoming - Really?
Everyone is so hoping that the market is bottoming because they all want to recoup their losses from last year, especially us 401k holders. For some strange reason, corporate profits appear to be beating expectations and everyone is hoping (wishing) that the market has bottomed and turned the corner. “Corporate profits are beating expectations by their widest margins in a year, pushing most equity markets within a whisker of new year-to-date highs and the dollar toward its 2009 lows,” John Normand, head of global currency strategy at JPMorgan Chase & Co. in London, wrote in a research note. [via Bloomberg] ...