Investors wouldn’t be blamed for sizing up the first losing week in three for the S&P 500 and decide to start the weekend early. And stock futures are just barely positive.
That brings us to our call of the day from TheoTrade’s chief market technician, Professor Jeff Bierman, who sees a bubble ahead for consumer staples, which he calls a “‘safe haven’ rotation sector that is overbought and overpriced.” “Every sector of the S&P needs to come to a single-digit multiple before it signals a market bottom. Semiconductors, oil, and retail are there. Consumer staples — not even close,” Bierman told clients.
Bitcoin BTCUSD is up slightly and hovering at just under $21,000. In the latest crypto domino to fall, lender Genesis has filed for bankruptcy, saying it has as much as $10 billion in liabilities. Genius Group GNS is soaring another 52% in premarket after the Singapore-based education company said it had appointed a former F.B.I. official to probe alleged illegal trading in its stock.T-Mobile US TMUS said a cyberattack exposed limited personal information of some 37 million customers, but not “the most sensitive kind.”