The S&P 500 touched yet another all-time high Friday at $5,505. It was up +0.6% on the week. The NASDAQ also hit another all-time high ($17,936) but could not break the big round number of $18,000 in two attempts. It was flat on the week. Friday was “Triple Witching” Options expiration – over $5t in options expired.
“If you do not know what port you sail to, no wind is favorable.” Read More »
In 2001, Jim O’Neil of Goldman Sachs coined the acronym BRIC to define an asset class for promoAng
investment through Goldman, of course, into Brazil, Russia, India, and China.
I am not fighting the Fed and expect funding rates to rise higher than the markets expect and for them to stay
higher for a longer period than the market expects. I also recognize that liquidity and momentum models may still
encourage large and sophisticated derivative trading which can propel risk assets higher.
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