Equity Clock - Market Outlook for October 2, 2024

The trend of hiring is showing the weakest performance in the history of the Job Openings and Labor Turnover (JOLT) survey.

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Stocks Entering Period of Seasonal Strength Today:

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iShares MSCI USA Value Factor ETF (AMEX:VLUE) Seasonal Chart

Northern Trust Corp. (NASD:NTRS) Seasonal Chart

MKS Instruments, Inc. (NASD:MKSI) Seasonal Chart

John Bean Technologies Corp. (NYSE:JBT) Seasonal Chart

Silicon Laboratories, Inc. (NASD:SLAB) Seasonal Chart

QUALCOMM Inc. (NASD:QCOM) Seasonal Chart

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The Markets

Stocks slipped to start the first month of the last quarter as investors monitored the escalation of tensions between Iran and Israel. The S&P 500 Index closed with a loss of just over nine-tenths of one percent, pulling back from the record closing high level charted in the prior session. A rollover of the short-term trend is becoming apparent amidst the waning of near-term upside momentum; MACD can be seen converging back on its signal line and RSI is moving back towards its middle line, both giving up on their positive slopes that has been apparent over the past few weeks. A lack of excitement in stocks is apparent with the benchmark above former resistance at 5650. Fortunately, the levels of support below remain plentiful, including the aforementioned horizontal hurdle, as well as major moving averages that are all positively sloped as we head towards the best six month of the year timeframe that gets underway at month-end. Seasonality still gives an edge to a cautious view of stocks in the near-term, particularly given the evidence of near-term upside exhaustion, but a retracement lower would be viewed as an ideal reset before the normal end-of-year rally commences.