Oil inventories are on the rise for the first time since February, but with upbeat demand and the return to pre-hurricane levels of production of Oil, we see no reason for concern. Real Time Economic Calendar provided by Investing.com. *** Stocks highlighted are for information purposes only and should not be considered as advice to purchase or to sell mentioned securities. As always, the use of technical and fundamental analysis is encouraged in order to fine tune entry and exit points to average seasonal trends. Stocks Entering Period of Seasonal Strength Today: Subscribers – Click on the relevant link to view the full profile. Not a subscriber? Signup here. Mattel, Inc. (NASD:MAT) Seasonal Chart Pinnacle West Cap Corp. (NYSE:PNW) Seasonal Chart Waters Corp. (NYSE:WAT) Seasonal Chart Toll Brothers, Inc. (NYSE:TOL) Seasonal Chart Commerce Bancshares, Inc. (NASD:CBSH) Seasonal Chart Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE:AYI) Seasonal Chart Metlife, Inc. (NYSE:MET) Seasonal Chart AdvisorShares DoubleLine Value Equity ETF (AMEX:DBLV) Seasonal Chart Carnival Corp. (NYSE:CCL) Seasonal Chart National Bank of Canada (TSE:NA.TO) Seasonal Chart Stantec, Inc. (TSE:STN.TO) Seasonal Chart Toromont Industries Ltd. (TSE:TIH.TO) Seasonal Chart Cathedral Energy Services Ltd. (TSE:CET.TO) Seasonal Chart Rollins, Inc. (NYSE:ROL) Seasonal Chart Sun Life Financial Services of Canada, Inc. (TSE:SLF.TO) Seasonal Chart Vanguard S&P 500 Index ETF (TSE:VFV.TO) Seasonal Chart iShares U.S. Financial Services ETF (NYSE:IYG) Seasonal Chart Invesco KBW Bank ETF (NASD:KBWB) Seasonal Chart The Markets Stocks jumped on Thursday as investors digested stronger than expected earnings reports and received better than expected data on the economy. The S&P 500 Index closed with a gain of 1.71%, gapping above its 20-day moving average in the process. A short-term head-and-shoulders bottoming pattern can be observed on the chart as the short-term path of lower-highs and lower-lows from the past month and a half is definitively broken. Subscribers following our model portfolio are benefitting handsomely following allocations enacted around the end of September. Today, in our Market Outlook to subscribers, we discuss the following: Hourly look at the large-cap benchmark and the theoretical target of the short-term bottoming pattern Weekly jobless claims and the health of the labor market Natural gas inventories and our view of how you should be exposed to the commodity Petroleum inventories: How we are benefiting from the strength in the energy sector and the target for the price of Oil Canada Manufacturing Sales and the ETFs that are poised to benefit Institutional sentiment Subscribe now and we’ll send this outlook to you. Sentiment on Thursday, as gauged by the put-call ratio, ended bullish at 0.83. Seasonal charts of companies reporting earnings today: S&P 500 Index TSE Composite