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Rate fate! Equities muscled ahead yesterday with the Dow making new highs once again. Continued good feelings from last weekend's trade progress with the USMCA (US Mexico Canada Agreement), an upbeat jobs number, and dovish Fed-speak are credited with the equity buying. All of the major indices...

Fly me to the moon. The Dow Jones Industrials ignored the risk alarms coming from Italy and rocketed to close at a new all time high. The index was propelled by continued good feelings from the new USMCA deal (NAFTA 2.0) and rises in Intel, Caterpillar, and Boeing (all of which are trade sensitive...

Oh Canada! Stocks rallied yesterday but closed mixed on news of a late weekend trade accord with Canada. The new trade deal, which is touted as being the new NAFTA is called the USMCA and it includes the US, Mexico, and Canada like its predecessor. The news gave a bull rush to the Dow Jones and the...

Final Friday frolic. Stocks traded mixed in volatile trading with little in the way of credible stimulus on the last trading day of the quarter. News of Elon Musk being sued by the SEC and Facebook’s latest security breach certainly roiled markets but did not ultimately have a large effect on them....

Here we go again. Fed raises rates as expected, traders parse the text and dots, analysts analyze the well-crafted speech, traders decide economy is still good to go. But wait, some bad trade news… buy techs. That sums up yesterday’s markets narrative as investors decided that Jay Powell’s speech...

Connect the dots. I’ve said it before, it’s all about the dots and, of course, the Federal Reserve that creates them. Markets spent the majority of yesterday’s session in the green led by tech and growth oriented stocks and then came the Federal Reserve’s rate announcement. The Fed announced a 25...