Sunday evenings are normally sleepy affairs, but not this one. Two big pieces of positive news from China sent the market jolting higher, with the first piece of news (released before the market even opened) doing most of the work.

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Sunday evenings are normally sleepy affairs, but not this one. Two big pieces of positive news from China sent the market jolting higher, with the first piece of news (released before the market even opened) doing most of the work.
This weekend, I’m going to try something different. I’ve made two videos about market direction. One is purely bullish. One is purely bearish. I think there are arguments to be made on both sides, and I’d like to present both sides to you for you to weigh the body of evidence for yourself. Here is the bearish video, as a companion piece to yesterday’s bullish one:
My chickens appears to be bigots. They seriously do this with their eggs. There’s got to be a “Jim Crow” joke in there somewhere.