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Nosebleed Indices

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After yet another vicious fake-out on July 29th, the market has resumed its old ways of banging out lifetime highs on a daily basis (weekends notwithstanding). Here are eight key index charts below, with brief remarks by me beneath each one:

The NASDAQ Composite is nearly at lifetime highs, and that dashed red line is pretty much the last line in the sand before tech stocks join the party.
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