As I mentioned in my commentary recently, there were a lot of warning signs out there with the Transports and High Yield Corporate Bonds (HYG) crumbling several days days ago. We also had some bullish looking formations (bull flags) on the S&P 500 and small caps charts, so I thought maybe the market might continue to try to climb the wall of worry.
Then, when everyone anticipates a poor CPI inflation report, stocks fall into that report, we get the bad report, and stocks fall further after it? That's unusual.
It could be setting up an afternoon reversal, but Friday's are tough. Positive reversals on Friday can be explosive and then follow through on Monday, but getting that reversal before the weekend is the trick.
Being that we are in a bear market, and have been for months, and the news is bad, how much of that news is already priced in? The Fed is raising rates for a reason and we all knew that already. It will be tough but the series of 0.50% rate hikes should eventually control inflation to a point, but now the concern is, how much will that negatively impact the economy? The market is trying to put a number on that today.