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It seems the market is now totally immune to trade war news. It just doesn’t care. The bombshell on Saturday that both the EU and Mexico would be slapped with 30% tariffs would have, in normal times, caused an historic crash? Today? Well, pre-market, equities (shown below with the /ES) are down maybe one-fifth of a single percentage point. Just. Don’t. Care.
Let us celebrate that, for the next few weeks, we’ll get to focus on good old-fashioned earnings instead of Powell and tarriffs.
