The following are highlights from our weekly market and economic analyses: Technicals: The overall short/intermediate-term setup remained mostly unchanged last week across the cyclical sectors.

I’m always a bit perplexed when I hear folks lament the ills of modern society. They tell tales of a hollowed out middle class

The headline reads: China’s Trade Surplus With the US Grew In June Yep, that’s an unfortunate headline indeed! Unfortunate in its wording, that is.

In this week’s video I suggested that the recent rally at that point  looked to me like a “no-news-is-good-news” event. I.e., amid a bullish

Yesterday we described the circumstances under which inflation can be considered a good thing: “Rising inflation is considered a good thing when it’s in response to an

We were more than clear from the get go that if President Trump was to act on the promises of Candidate Trump, the bad

Inflation can be a good thing, when the timing’s right. In fact, it’s what the Fed has been trying to create (to the tune

Once playing, click the icon in the lower right corner for full screen. Focus should occur after a few seconds; if not, click the

Last week we cautioned that the threat of a trade war could be skewing the latest data a bit positive: “The currently very strong

The following is my summary of our weekly market analysis: Last week showed some very short-term technical improvement – my subjective view in “daily chart character”