Stock Market Outlook for March 7, 2025
The colder than average winter weather presents a wildcard in the payroll results, but we know that it has been a positive influence for the price of natural gas, which is entering its period of seasonal strength.
*** Stocks highlighted are for information purposes only and should not be considered as advice to purchase or to sell mentioned securities. As always, the use of technical and fundamental analysis is encouraged in order to fine tune entry and exit points to average seasonal trends.
Stocks Entering Period of Seasonal Strength Today:
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PVH Corp. (NYSE:PVH) Seasonal Chart
Lululemon Athletica Inc. (NASD:LULU) Seasonal Chart
Greif Bros. Corp. (NYSE:GEF) Seasonal Chart
Y-mAbs Therapeutics, Inc. (NASD:YMAB) Seasonal Chart
Equinix, Inc. (NASD:EQIX) Seasonal Chart
Stepan Co. (NYSE:SCL) Seasonal Chart
CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (NASD:CRWD) Seasonal Chart
The Markets
Stocks continue to react to the developments on the tariff front, not finding much relief from the temporary pause on certain goods that qualify under the United States-Mexico-Canada trade agreement (USMCA). The large-cap benchmark fell back to the lows recorded just prior to the US election, shedding 1.78% and pressuring support around the 200-day moving average (5730). The short-term trading range between 5830 and 6100 has been broken and the lower limit of the span (5830) can be seen as a point of resistance; a short-term declining trend remains intact heading into the often market moving monthly employment report slated to be released on Friday. The more formidable point of resistance remains the declining 50-day moving average at 5985. Momentum indicators on the daily chart have negatively diverged from price since the middle of last year, highlighting the waning enthusiasm investors had been expressing towards tech-heavy (Mag-7) benchmarks, like this, amidst extreme valuations. For now, the drawdown in the market can still be viewed as healthy and ordinary within a bull market, by any measure, but some critical levels below will warrant scrutiny, such as 5700 on the S&P 500 and 73,000 for Bitcoin. Below these thresholds, more dire scenarios for risk assets must be considered. We continue to monitor the potential impact of the apparent rotation in the market on our list of candidates in the market to Accumulate and to Avoid and we have adopted more of a neutral stance as segments that were previously noted as Accumulate candidates fall off (eg. Technology) and as areas to Avoid are added.
Today, in our Market Outlook to subscribers, we discuss the following:
- Credit spreads
- Weekly jobless claims and the health of the labor market
- A preview of what to expect from February’s payroll report
- Natural Gas
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Sentiment on Thursday, as gauged by the put-call ratio, ended close to neutral at 0.94.
Seasonal charts of companies reporting earnings today:
S&P 500 Index
TSE Composite
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