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Here are the 2014 and 2018 gaps. In one case CL runs away to the downside and the S&P 500 doesn’t peak until later, in the other XLE catches up amid a broad equities correction
2018 is a closer analog to the current backdrop in equities assuming the rally is done.
Okay, time for another mini-rant. And, seriously, I bristle at devolving into the get-off-my-lawn trope, but I find it difficult not to express myself. Anyway, all I was doing was logging into iCloud and I was presented with this:
I dusted off Slope’s Yield Curve Tool and wanted to share a few interesting charts. First off, this is what the yield curve looks like during normal, healthy economies, like back in the early 1990s.
