What A Reversal
After being up this morning on a strong October ISM Manufacturing report, the market turned course with the S&P dropping 20 points between 12pm and 1pm EST. Yowza.

After being up this morning on a strong October ISM Manufacturing report, the market turned course with the S&P dropping 20 points between 12pm and 1pm EST. Yowza.

History doesn’t repeat itself but it rhymes – Mark Twain In the late 1960s and early 1970s there was a group of high quality companies including Kodak and Xerox that led the market and which investors piled into regardless of…
The February CPI came in this morning marginally hotter than expected with both headline and core increasing by 0.4% month over month. As I wrote earlier this morning, bulls would have liked to see core at 0.3%. Which raises the…
Jon Sindreu wrote a very interesting article for the WSJ’s Heard On The Street section this morning (“Don’t Call AI Craze A Bubble” [SUBSCRIPTION REQUIRED]). Sindreu wants to make a distinction between the current market – in which blue chip…
An interesting meme has taken hold of the crowd mind that is financial markets in recent weeks: The Peak Inflation Narrative. It started when Powell signaled a 50 basis point hike on Thursday April 21 and has gained momentum since….
Since Thursday’s weaker than expected June CPI Report, the market has undergone quite the transformation. Megacap Tech – The Magnificent 7 – which have accounted for most of this bull market’s gains have taken a breather. On the other hand,…
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