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Remember quantum computing? It was a white-hot sector oh, about a week ago, and although it has retained almost all its massive gains, the shiny new pebble of crypto have distracted the short-attention crowd of traders. It’s a bit surprising this sector went so bananas, since the technology is FAR from complete (and revenues, to say nothing of profits, are many years away, at best) but – – it is what it is.
Futurists usually do a really embarrassing job predicting what the world is going to be like, but I’ve got to say, this fanciful cartoon from 1919 pretty much nailed it, as it toyed with what it would be like if phones could live in your pocket.
Anything that’s not a dollar is rocking the free world. SLV, long a favorite here on Slope, is lurching anew to multi-year highs.
We’ve got red futures quotes for the equity markets for a change, which is welcome. I must say, with all the trade announcements, the fact the market hasn’t BUDGED for over a week is kind of indicative of how little the market cares about the trade wars anymore.
These same announcements would have had us crashing back in early April, but as it is now, it’s just a giant shrug of the shoulders, as illustrated by the /NQ:
