The following tweet from Xu Xijin, editor of China’s (state-controlled) Global Times newspaper, is consistent with the hunkering down I’ve been sensing while reading

Just to bring home how this moment is all about the Fed, and the prospects for a rate cut, take a look at our

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Right out of the gates in his congressional testimony this morning Fed Chair Jerome Powell offered up precisely what the market wanted; a cautious

Japanese data (supporting the points we made in our latest weekly message), paints a not-pretty picture of present global business conditions:  emphasis mine… “June’s

Of course we know the hit that U.S. importers are taking due to the trade war (yes, they write the tariff checks to the

The President continues to say that if the Fed would cut interest rates the Dow would be at 30,000 and that the economy would

Just finished up my weekly deep dive into the market and economic fundamentals and technicals that matter — on both short and longer-term time

Per Wednesday’s commentary, futures are trading lower this morning on today’s strong jobs report; that’s your cue to start scratching your head. Even crazier,

Today, true to form for the past few days, the market rallied right into the close (very bullish indicator) and logged yet another all-time high