Market News Update: Potential 10% Correction Ahead

Key Highlights:

The quarterly earnings season could confront investors with a market correction.
Shares of stocks are currently at record levels.

Morgan Stanley Chief US Equity Strategist Mike Wilson speaks to the uncertainty over issues like corporate earnings, the election, tariffs and central bank policy.
Meanwhile, Wilson says a 10% correction is “a very high probability” before the election.

Story Continued Below The short answer is, no — not counting a few dozen U.S. corporations reporting booming profits while everyone else just hears talk of such gains in the future.
But only when the Federal Reserve starts to have its foot off investors’ throats will earnings be bettered, according to Lynch.

Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell’s testimony to Congress, allows the investors to browse into monetary policy clues.
With the employment market data showing signs of softening, there is now an 80% probability that a rate cut will materialize in September at least according to markets.

UPS has already managed COVID-19 vaccine delivery, and the Amazons of this world are suddenly importing AI chip supplier Taiwan (largely from companies like Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) is having an export boom with the U.S.
Big Tech is enjoying a banner year with companies such as Apple, Meta and Amazon returning to all-time highs thanks in part to investors’ bullish views that artificial intelligence will increase output without simultaneously lifting costs.

Wall Street banks led by big results kick off earnings this week by reporting on Friday
Analysts will want to see examples, for example, AI leading to cost savings and productivity gains.

Less-than-stellar economic data notwithstanding, investors keep driving indexes from one record high to the next.
Investors are seemingly counting on more aggressive central bank easing if the economy slows, or even teeters toward recession – that is a view that also lingers in some stages.

Who/what is talking about AI as a productivity use for people and leaving the rest to become real headlines (I can speak from personal experience of my struggles with that one!.) Several experts are weary this will not be useful.
Macrostrategy Partnership founder James Ferguson has a dire warning about the potential of generative AI to take productivity gains too far with its penchant for hallucinating and creating imaginary data.
However, the same problem could be encountered by businesses failing to authenticate AI-driven work – such as happened with the law firm Levidow, Levidow & Oberman.

Ferguson suggests the AI hype circle at present is like 1999 all over again and cautions that broken reliability in it could make AI rather less of a utility than one might otherwise expect.
Keep yourself updated and be prepared to tackle the potential market volatility when earnings season gets underway and some key economic data will start appearing.