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While economic growth is mostly healthy, disappointing corporate results and forecasts this earnings season have shown how tariffs, rising wages and borrowing costs as well as jitters over geopolitical events are hurting companies. Data earlier in the day showed the U.S. economy continued to grow at a healthy pace, offering some support. U.S. gross domestic product growth slowed less than expected in the third quarter as a tariff-related drop in soybean exports was partially offset by the strongest consumer spending in nearly four years and a surge in inventory investment.
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“Most people I would argue are sitting around talking about where do we buy. They look at this still more as a buying opportunity than a risk,” he said. Facebook Inc (FB.O), Apple Inc (AAPL.O) and Netflix Inc (NFLX.O), the other members of the so-called FAANG group, were also sharply lower. The S&P discretionary index .SPLRCD fell 3.6 percent. Declining issues outnumbered advancing ones on the NYSE by a 2.68-to-1 ratio, while on Nasdaq a 2.13-to-1 ratio favored decliners. The S&P 500 posted no new 52-week highs and 88 new lows, while the Nasdaq Composite recorded 15 new highs and 323 new lows.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Worries over global oil pricing and pipeline tennis racquet handle cross section cufflinks constraints are hanging over the energy sector as U.S, companies begin to report quarterly results, with many producers’ shares trading lower on the year, Third-quarter profits for oil producers generally should be higher than a year ago, because the average price per barrel was up about 44 percent over the same period last year, But oil prices on Friday registered their third straight weekly decline, extending a slide on concerns that slower global economic growth and the U.S.-China trade war could dent demand..
U.S. crude CLc1 is on track for a decline of roughly 8 percent for the month, while the S&P 500 energy index .SPNY is down 12.2 percent so far in October compared with the benchmark S&P 500's .SPX 8.8 percent decline. [.N]. U.S. crude prices CLc1 averaged $69.43 a barrel in the third quarter, up sharply from $48.20 a year earlier. Analysts expect this helped boost S&P 500 energy companies’ quarterly earnings 102.9 percent, the biggest expected year-over-year growth among sectors, according to I/B/E/S data from Refinitiv.
That would be the biggest expected year-over-year percentage growth of any sector for the quarter, Still, some investors say it may not be enough to reverse the trend in shares given trade tennis racquet handle cross section cufflinks and other worries, “I expect earnings will be good because the last quarter’s prices were good,” said Rick Meckler, partner at Cherry Lane Investments, a family investment office in New Vernon, New Jersey, But, “it has been very difficult for these companies to forecast pricing because it has been so volatile,” he said, Companies that provide drilling and other work for U.S, producers have blamed a near-term slowdown in services demand due to pipeline and other constraints, particularly in the West Texas shale fields..
While U.S. sanctions against Iranian oil exports could support prices in the coming months, top exporters Saudi Arabia and Russia have been signaling they expect to increase production, which should limit increases. Upcoming earnings reports, with Exxon Mobil (XOM.N) and Chevron (CVX.N) both due Nov. 2, could reflect those issues. Exxon is down nearly 9 percent for the month to date, while Chevron also is down almost 9 percent. “We’ve seen oil prices sell off here throughout the correction we’ve had in the broad market. The concern in the sell-off is clearly global growth, and that’s immediately reflected in oil prices,” said Tim Ghriskey, chief investment strategist at Inverness Counsel in New York.
UBS analysts expect oil demand to grow more slowly in 2019, on higher oil prices and weaker economic growth, Another producer, tennis racquet handle cross section cufflinks Hess Corp (HES.N), is due to report Wednesday, while ConocoPhillips (COP.N), the world’s largest independent oil and gas producer, beat analysts’ estimates for profit in the third quarter when it reported Thursday, citing higher oil prices but also cost cuts, Recent losses aside, some equity strategists consider oil to be in a bullish cycle and expect prices to rise further over the next year..