National Bank of Canada (TSE:NA) – Equities research analysts at Desjardins lifted their FY2018 earnings per share estimates for National Bank of Canada in a research note issued to investors on Wednesday, August 29th. Desjardins analyst D. Young now anticipates that the financial services provider will earn $5.95 per share for the year, up from their prior forecast of $5.89. Desjardins also issued estimates for National Bank of Canada’s Q4 2018 earnings at $1.49 EPS and FY2019 earnings at $6.35 EPS.

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Stock Market breadth and momentum moving in the right direction as stocks move to new highs. Even with improvements, breadth is following price higher, not leading.

Investor sentiment data shows that optimism is getting excessive.