Slowing U.S. inflation shifts investor focus to earnings season

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Sme think further gains in stocks could depend on upcoming corporate reports

Inflation data showing U.S. consumer prices rising less than expected in March may have come as a relief to markets, but some investors believe it may take a strong corporate earnings season to push stocks higher decisively.

“We will have a lot of clarity over the next seven days when you have most major banks reporting,” said Jake Schurmeier, a portfolio manager at Harbor Capital Advisors. “If the banks are proving that they are growing and lending and have confidence in the credit outlook, that will be a much stronger sign that the Fed may be able to achieve a soft landing.”

“From an equity market standpoint, is in line and already priced by the market, so we do not see this as a catalyst for valuations to expand much further,” wrote Matt Peron, director of research at Janus Henderson Investors, in a Wednesday note.The upcoming earnings season kicks off on April 14 with results from big Wall Street banks including JPMorgan Chase , Citigroup Inc and Wells Fargo, which investors will scrutinize to gauge the effects of last month’s banking crisis.

Overall, analysts expect S&P 500 earnings to fall 5.2% in the first quarter of 2023 from the year-ago period, I/B/E/S data from Refinitiv as of April 7 showed.

 

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