There seems to be a common trope that absolutely nothing is made in America anymore except porn and ventriloquist dummies. It isn’t true, although China far and away the king of making stuff.
Where Stuff Gets Made
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Another Day, Another $62
From M&M to A&A
Yesterday after the close, MSFT and META were on deck, and their dual killer results lurched the market higher. Today, all eyes are going to be on AMZN and AAPL instead. Historically, AMZN is quite punctual with its results, whereas Apple goes full prima donna and waits half an hour until they deign to tell us how many models of the iPhone 69 have sold (the one with 57 lenses on the back). Here are key resistance levels for each:
Afternoon M&M
As we work toward the end of this earnings cycle, the two big monsters after the close today are META and MSFT.
Gross!
Even with the endlessly massaged and optimistic economic data from the government, the Gross Domestic Product quarterly numbers have slumped into a shrinking economy. You can expect this for years to come.
