April 24- 28, 2023 Market Recap

April 28, 2023

 The stock market had another strong performance day, following yesterday's massive rally buoyed by strong earings from technology stocks. 

The 2 days back to back rally has pushed the USstock  benchmark/ETFs back above the 20day moving average- SPY +.85%  DIA +.84%  QQQ +.69%

Notable Earnings movers:

• AMZN -3.98%, AMZN +12%  as the immediate earnings reaction post market hours, the gain has been reversed  as it reports declining sales on cloud and computing services .
• FSLR -9.09% another solar stocks down on weak earnings report, yesterday solar stock loser was ENPH -25.73%

April 27, 2023

The US equities bounced back from 2 days of selling in the market, and the gain of  Nasdaq/ QQQ +2.72% has erased the 2 days decline plus some gains, the strength is attributable to META +13.93% strong earnings following MSFT +3.20% & GOOGL +3.74% strong earning reports early this week.

There's a broad rally across equities today, the top performers are from Technology stocks, Bitcoin +4% causing blockchains stocks to rally:

• MSTR +6.40%  MARA +6.34%  RIOT +8.52%

April 26, 2023

Today's market session marked the second streak of weakness in the US stock  ETFs/ Benchmark and most equities.  

Despite the strong earnings reported by:  MSFT +7.24%  CMG +12.91% GOOGL -.13% the equities failed to hold the opening rally or day gains, the US benchmarks attempted to rally but it gave up most of their gains by the end of the trading day  SPY -.42%  DIA -.71%  QQQ +.61%, per daily technical chart of the SPY, DIA, & QQQ - todays' session marked the second day of losing the 20 daily moving average support, however, it remains to trade above its 50-day & 200-day moving average.

Notable Earnings Mover:

• CMG +12.91%  MSFT +7.24%  [ in lieu of MSFT strong earnings these stock related to AI & data cloud has also moved - SNOW +8.55%  DDOG +10.50%
• ENPH -25.73%  [ in lieu of ENPH's dismal earnings SEDG -10.43% sympathy move]

CMG sets new record high post-earnings result with a high trading volume

 April 25, 2023

There is a broad selling in the market today, the US stock ETFs/ benchmark has declined over 1% - SPY -1.59%  DIA -1.01%  QQQ -1.89% .  The selling is in lieu to a number of concerns in the economy:

• The Conference Board U.S. Apr consumer confidence index fell -2.7 to a 9-month low of 101.3, weaker than expectations of 104.0. April 2023 consumer confidence reading
• The U.S. Apr Richmond Fed manufacturing survey fell -5 to -10, weaker than expectations of -8.  Richmond Fed April manufacturing data

The Tech stocks are today's biggest loser

• AMZN -3.43%  AAPL -.94%  [MSFT -2.25%  GOOGL -2% ahead of earnings]
•  FB -2.46%  SNOW -4.93% NOW -6.49%

Notable earnings for the week:

• 4/26  META BA
• 4/27  CAT  AMZN MA

April 24, 2023

It's another quiet trading session in the US market, most of the broad sector in the US equity had a minor sell-off today.  The US ETFs/ Benchmarks :

•  SPY +.10%  DIA +.19%  QQQ -.21%

This is a huge week as the giant corporations are set to report earnings this week:

• 4/25  MSFT  GOOGL CMG  V
• 4/26  META BA
• 4/27  CAT  AMZN MA

Notable Losers:

• COIN -7.27% 

Trading at 52 weeks high/ record high:

• XOM +1.89%  LLY -.49%