Updates – Earnings

The recent mini-correction in stocks has been driven mostly by technical factors and should reverse as companies progress through earning season, according to J.P. Morgan strategists.

The U.S. economy sits atop of the World Economic Forum’s annual global competitiveness survey for the first time since the 2007-2009 financial crisis, benefiting from a new ranking methodology this year, the Swiss body said on Tuesday.

While investors wait for the sequel to last week’s market sell-off, Goldman Sachs strategists think the worst of it already may have passed.

Protracted downturns largely occur when the economy lapses into recession, yet most economists don’t see that happening until 2020, if then.

J.P. Morgan is telling its clients to make the most of the market’s massive sell-off this week.

Charles Evans sees America’s economic outlook remaining positive for the foreseeable future — but only if interest rates are hiked to above neutral, or just above 3 percent.

Rates are on the rise and giving a scare to stock markets, but history suggests rising rates could soon give the stock market a lift, says Oppenheimer’s Ari Wald.

President Trump’s corporate tax cut and his business deregulation efforts are not a “sugar high,” says ex-Fed Gov. Kevin Warsh.