BUSFIN 4221: Market Talk 9/14/26, 9/16/26

MARKET TALK 9/14/26

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Every public company is REQUIRED to

file

QUARTERLY (3 times per year)

financial statements (10-Q)

• Also REQUIRED to file an ANNUAL

financial statement (10-K)

Other

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Earning Season

• Earnings season begins the first week of

October.

• You will be VERY busy

• the period of time

during which a large number of publicly

traded companies release their quarterly

earnings reports.

• In general, each earnings season begins

one or two weeks after the last month of

each quarter ( March, June, September

and December).

Consensus Earnings Estimate-

A figure based

on the combined estimates (arithmetic

average) of the Wall Street analysts covering

a public company

There are a number of earnings estimate

aggregators

– IBES, Factset, Zacks, Bloomberg

• IBES is most widely used on Wall Street

MARKET TALK 9/16/26

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Fed Meeting

• Summary of economic projections

• Survey of FED members

Dot Plot

• Fed members estimate of neutral rate.

• Chart that shows how the Fed’s top policymakers think the Fed will change short term interest rates over the next few years