The Week Ahead : April 7th - 11th 2025

Highlights: FED Minutes, CPI, Earnings Season Kicks off

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April 06, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes

The Week Ahead : April 7th - 11th 2025

Highlights: FED Minutes, CPI, Earnings Season Kicks off

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The Week Ahead

Well we certainly are living in interesting times! Lots of dynamics this week. I don’t think anyone needs another Tariff theory so I will spare you that. However, the market is now deeply oversold on a historical level. There WILL be a bounce. That is a near certainty. However that bounce may be only 1 or 2 days or we may go full covid and V to all time highs. Nobody knows what will occur.

At this point it’s so incredibly important to focus on the markets reaction to any headline and not the headline itself. Especially if you feel like a headline is bearish and the market is still rallying off that.

Earnings kick off this week and there are some important ones. DAL will be closely watched for Macro/Tourism/Travel. KMX on Secondary Auto trade and most of all the banks JPM, WFC, MS etc. on Friday are likely to have a lot of commentary that will carry a lot of weight.

FED Minutes on Wednesday and CPI Thursday make the back half of the week very Macro heavy when you take in banks earnings and PPI on Friday morning also. Expect plenty of volatility. Everyone wants the FED to announce cuts but if you listened to Powell last week then that seems unlikely. It will be more of the same narrative.

I think the market is so oversold then there is a strong likelihood we have enough news flow to rally Monday and/or Tuesday. A gap down on tonight’s futures would make that rally more likely I believe.

In a final note, with every market moment there are winners and losers. This is an extreme market event. If it turns out to be a longer theme then there will be enormous Episodic Pivots in the making. I think it’s worth thinking past simple tariffs. The US Administration like it or not is pivoting to classic Protectionism. This has been done before. It’s not a new concept. In Covid you saw early EPs in FSLY and others. The same will occur here and similarly you saw Negative EPs in Airlines, Cruises etc. again you will see same here. Being open minded, putting your politics aside and recognizing these EPs can create life changing money.

Earnings Highlights

Monday :

(After Market Close) - LEVI, PLAY

Tuesday:

(After Market Close) - CALM, AEHR, KRUS

Wednesday:

(Before Market Open) - DAL

(After Market Close) - STZ

Thursday:

(Before Market Open) - KMX, BYRN, LOVE

Friday:

(Before Market Open) - JPM, BLK, WFC, MS, BK, FAST

Next weeks full earnings watchlist on TradingView can be accessed here.

Macro Events (Eastern Time)

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