To The Moon

Second-quarter earnings season picks up this week, as 76 S&P 500 companies are scheduled to report.

The IPO market’s breakneck pace is expected to continue in the week ahead, with a whopping 17 IPOs slated to raise $4.7 billion.The largest deal of the week, specialty insurance brokerage Ryan Specialty Group plans to raise $1.3 billion at a $6.1 billion market cap. The company assists in the placement of hard-to-place risks for retail insurance brokers, and the sourcing, onboarding, underwriting, and servicing of those hard-to-place risks for insurance carriers. Profitable on an EBIT basis in t

Market breadth hasn’t been this poor since October 2018 and the start of a 20%-plus decline.Get ready for the most severe correction since the bull market began in March 2020.To be sure, predictions are a dime a dozen on Wall Street. But this one comes from Hayes Martin, president of investment advisory firmMarket Extremes. I was introduced to Martin’s work several years ago and since then I’ve found his predictions of market turning points to be impressive. . I devoted two columns to Martin’s f