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Wall Street Breakfast

Fed focus, loving + hating earnings season, bonds competing with stocks

Wall Street Breakfast

Seeking Alpha

Business News, News, Business, Investing

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Rob Isbitts and Matthew Tuttle discuss focusing on the Fed, Magnificent Seven earnings and why a little bit of bullishness may be warranted (0:25). Loving and hating earnings season (8:30), bonds becoming really good competition for stocks (14:00).

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Seeking Alpha's Wall Street Breakfast Sunday Edition.

0:05.0

I'm Rob Isbitz, a Seeking Alpha contributor under the profile SunGarden Investment Publishing.

0:10.0

My friend Matthew Tuttle of Tuttle capital management is with me again.

0:14.7

He's a fellow Seeking Alpha Contributor

0:16.7

as we look back and look forward.

0:18.8

Tell me what's on your mind.

0:20.1

The main things that are on my mind,

0:22.3

there's a ton going on, but what I am focused on first and foremost is what's the Fed going to do?

0:30.0

Because I think once we get through all this Middle East turmoil,

0:35.0

assuming it doesn't turn into a broader war,

0:38.5

that's going to be the main focus.

0:40.5

And then number two, the Magnificent Seven earnings, because the Magnificent Seven's like 90% of the S&P 500 returns this year.

0:51.0

And I saw Bloomberg did an article the other day that you know those stocks were

0:55.9

estimated to have earnings growth of 34% pull those out of the market and everything else is looking at negative earnings growth.

1:06.1

So I think those things are going to be very important.

1:09.9

I do think that the Fed is not going to raise this year.

1:14.0

And so once we get through all of this,

1:20.1

you know, Middle Eastern turmoil

1:22.2

and once we figure out why rates are

1:24.2

spiking I might actually be a little bit bullish at the moment.

1:29.4

It's amazing to me how much investing has turned into, I mean even more than in the past, an emotion

1:39.0

and confidence game, I remember a long time ago reading a book about investing in my early days and it said, well,

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