{"id":867,"date":"2008-08-25T06:00:19","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T10:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=867"},"modified":"2008-08-25T06:00:19","modified_gmt":"2008-08-25T10:00:19","slug":"the-week-ahead-size-matters-but-does-sears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/25\/the-week-ahead-size-matters-but-does-sears\/","title":{"rendered":"The Week Ahead: Size matters, but does Sears?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a title=\"Week Ahead Horowitz MSN\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.moneycentral.msn.com\/topstocks\/archive\/2008\/08\/22\/the-week-ahead-size-matters-but-does-sears.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">MSN Money TopStocks <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is no secret that markets have been tough for everyone and on Friday, Chairman Bernanke said, &#8221; the crisis is softening growth, raising joblessness, and the Fed\u2018s job is one of the most challenging in memory&#8221;. At the same time, he believes that the recent trend of the dollar will likely slow inflation. The market took that as good news and a reason to raise stocks and crush oil.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He also said that the U.S. growth would fall short of potential for a time, which will help curb inflation. That sounds like the Fed believes that companies will have their work cut out for them. In the face of a stronger dollar, exports will suffer and cause earnings to slow. So, what can we expect to see from companies reporting next week?<\/p>\n<p>Stocks discussed: Sears Holdings Corporation (SHLD) Sanderson Farms (SAFM) Chico&#8217;s (CHS)<\/p>\n<p>Read the full details <a title=\"Week Ahead\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.moneycentral.msn.com\/topstocks\/archive\/2008\/08\/22\/the-week-ahead-size-matters-but-does-sears.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSN Money TopStocks It is no secret that markets have been tough for everyone and on Friday, Chairman Bernanke said, &#8221; the crisis is softening growth, raising joblessness, and the Fed\u2018s job is one of the most challenging in memory&#8221;. At the same time, he believes that the recent trend of the dollar will likely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24,220,12,42],"tags":[487,494,486,490],"class_list":["post-867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earnings","category-weekly-gameplan","category-markets","category-stocks","tag-earnings","tag-long-ideas","tag-short-ideas","tag-stocks","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}