Our cartoonist Bob Rich captures the tenor on Wall Street every weekday in Hedgeye's widely-acclaimed Cartoon of the Day. Below are his five latest cartoons. We hope you enjoy his humor and wit as filtered through Hedgeye's market insights. (Click here to receive our daily cartoon for free.)
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1. Past Peak (4/15/2016)
Recent data continues to confirm our bearish thesis on the U.S. economy, like Friday's terrible US Industrial Production report which slowed to -2% year-over-year in March.
2. Look Out Below! (4/14/2016)
"Unlike many strategists (who missed calling the cycle top in US Consumption, Employment, and Profits last year), we have stayed with The Cycle call we’ve had all along here in Q2," Hedgeye CEO Keith McCullough wrote recently.
3. The Central Bank Of Neverland (4/13/2016)
Central planners are increasingly pushing on a string as macro markets continue to move in direct opposition to the best efforts of policymakers at the ECB and BOJ.
4. Earnings: Dead In The Water (4/12/2016)
In what is already expected to be an ugly quarter for corporate earnings, Alcoa kicked off 1Q earnings season with a bang last night. The aluminum producer missed revenue estimates, earnings fell by 92% and reduced guidance for the year.
5. The Cycle (4/11/2016)
The U.S. growth outlook is getting pretty grim. The Atlanta Fed's GDPNow tracker for U.S. economic growth in Q1 2016 just hit 0.1% after a spate of new negative data.
We've been making this bearish call for a while now and highlighted in our Q2 Macro themes that "the U.S. economy faces its toughest GDP comp of the cycle in 2Q16."
