Market Madness: Are You Worried About a Bear Market or Retail Earnings?

Is the market turning bearish? What retail earnings are this week?

Author:: Katherine Ross
Publish date:: Aug 13, 2018 4:30 PM EDT

Whew.

It's a busy week ahead.

TheStreet will be covering multiple retail earnings. Home Depot (HD) - Get Report reports on Aug. 14, while Macy's follows on Aug. 15. JC Penney (JCP) - Get Report and Nvidia Corp. (NVDA) - Get Report are on Aug. 16. And the week ends with Walmart (WMT) - Get Report on Aug. 17.

Nvidia, a holding in Jim Cramer's Action Alerts PLUS member club, will be followed with a live blog.

It feels like this market is near a tipping point, could go either way, according to TheStreet's Jacob Sonenshine. Economy looking strong, strong inflation reflects strong economy

TheStreet's Brian Sozzi reports that S&P hitting its second high in the same year means we could be headed for a bear market. A Cannacord Genuity Strategist says S&P 500 headed for bear market.