Q1 Earnings: Low Bar but Stocks Must Deliver
This article was originally published on ETFTrends.com.
By Chris Konstantinos, Doug Sandler and Rod Smyth, RiverFront Investment Management Q1 earnings reporting season kicks off this week. Analysts are expecting a 4.2% year-over-year decline in the aggregate earnings of S&P 500 companies (chart below). This will mark the first of such declines since Q2 2016. We believe that any earnings decline is something that [...]