Stock Market to Top Out, Financial Report by Leading Financial Newsletter Profit Confidential

April 23, 2012 - PRLog -- This earnings season, Mitchell Clark, contributor to Profit Confidential, believes the results will signal a top to the stock market. Clark believes this earnings season is going to be the catalyst for the stock market’s near-term direction, which is most likely down.

“In my view, the stock market is likely to top out this year,” says Clark “So I’m not a big advocate of taking on major new positions.”

In the recent Profit Confidential article, It’s All About the Momentum—as Soon as It Slows, the Stock Market’s Done, Clark highlights that the recent trading action is more about a lack of buyers than outright selling.

“The key will be all about expectations. Since the fourth quarter of 2011, current expectations this earnings season are quite lofty,” says Clark.

Clark believes that the U.S. economy is coming due for another slowdown or recession and that there isn’t enough momentum currently for the U.S. economy to accelerate going into 2013.

“This earnings season, I’d be happy with no surprises,” says Clark. “The stock market doesn’t need corporate earnings to be surprisingly strong; only to show that there’s momentum in the numbers.”

Clark cautions that, with the BRIC countries slowing, it’s going to be equally difficult for corporate earnings to accelerate. “U.S. firms have padded their earnings over the last several years from strong international operations, particularly in Asia. This is changing now and so must investor expectations,” says the analyst.

Clark believes that, as soon as we get an earnings season that reveals slowing momentum, this market is done.

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