Quick Take: Exhausted Buyers Can't Stop This Market
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Despite the positive reports out from Wells Fargo (WFC) - Get Report and JPMorgan Chase (JPM) - Get Report this morning, the markets remain flat
Jon Corpina, senior managing partner at Meridian Equity, told
TheStreet's
Debra Borchardt that investors have to look at these companies as more than just banks. Due to their conglomerate stature, there is a lot more going on than simply banking, particularly on the consumer side of things.
Investors wanted to know what loan growth and lending looked like and if the firms thought the overall economy would continue to strengthen. Generally speaking, they were pleased, although you wouldn't know it by looking at the broader market reaction, he said.
But that doesn't have anything to do with the earnings reports, he added. Equity markets have rallied hard over the last two weeks and are back near all-time highs. Specifically, stocks had a remarkably strong session Thursday following
Federal Reserve
Chairman Ben Bernanke's comments on Wednesday.
With good momentum coming from JPMorgan, Wells Fargo and
Alcoa
(AA) - Get Report
, which reported earlier in the week, Corpina says the markets can continue higher.
Goldman Sachs
(GS) - Get Report
,
Citigroup
(C) - Get Report
and
Coca-Cola
(KO) - Get Report
all report next week as earnings season continues.
The fact that we haven't had a pullback is impressive, Corpina said. He doesn't think we'll get a pullback but if we do, it will be short-lived because equities are looking to make new highs.
-- Written by Bret Kenwell in Petoskey, Mich.
Bret Kenwell currently writes, blogs and also contributes to Robert Weinstein's Weekly Options Newsletter. Focuses on short-to-intermediate-term trading opportunities that can be exposed via options. He prefers to use debit trades on momentum setups and credit trades on support/resistance setups. He also focuses on building long-term wealth by searching for consistent, quality dividend paying companies and long-term growth companies. He considers himself the surfer, not the wave, in relation to the market and himself. He has no allegiance to either the bull side or the bear side.