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September is famously the weakest month of the year for equities. It sure acted like that during the first trading week, falling sharply after Labor Day in one of the worst weeks for equities in a long while. That didn’t last, and some of the more annoyingly robust items are shown below.
First, we have the Dow Industrials fund (colloquially referred to as the “diamonds”) which is effectively at lifetime highs. Again.
What can I say? I really, really like old maps.
It was another terrific week for precious metals, an asset whose strength I applaud. Here we see GLD escaped from its ascending price channel and seems to have slapped on its turbo boosters.
Below are five exchange traded funds which, unlike those I’m including in my “Hercules” post this weekend, seem to be at the cusp of resuming their downtrends, now that the “Jensen Huang says things are good” mega-rally is over. We have the emerging markets:
