The indices are packed on Thursday and Friday after the European Central Bank and the Chinese bank showed that they were ready to act to support the economy by injecting liquidity and lowering their policy rates.
"It's no secret that the exchanges like liquidity," said Gregori Volokhine of Meeschaert and Wall Street could not climb on earnings season far from phenomenal, he noted.
But "as we had very pessimistic expectations, it was enough to overcome the little" and bring up the actions, noted Art Hogan, at Wunderlich Securities.
Now that the market still grew after having just surpassed its level of the beginning of the year, "we will have new information," he added, relying instead on a coming week stable or slightly down.
The problem, said Hugh Johnson, Hugh Johnson Advisors in, is that "we ended on a good note and at a level of slight overvaluation".
Two calendar items particularly worthy of attention: the results of Apple, world's largest capitalization on Tuesday night, and the Federal Reserve meeting on Tuesday and Wednesday.
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