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Market On Close - Wednesday 16 August

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Burry 1, Retail 0

With a much-reported short campaign, amplified in meaning and in quantum by Twitter and various serious news outlets alike, a certain Mr Burry has captured the zeitgest rather nicely.  Stocks which as recently last month looked like they could Only Go Up now look like maybe they Could Go Down A Lot.

If you've been following the charts we post most every day in this service, hopefully you can see that markets are following a normal ebb and flow pattern.  The indices went up a lot, and quickly, from the January lows and March re-tests of the lows; naturally they will let off steam a little now.

Anything can happen of course, so it's possible that markets just keep selling off, 2022-style, but we don't think that's likely.  Our long term bull case is based on these pillars:

  • US GDP growth appears to be accelerating, according to the Atlanta Fed.
  • Inflation appears to be coming down, according to everyone other than David Einhorn.
  • Fed-speak leans neutral to dovish, probably because ...
  • ... there's a Presidential election cycle getting underway.

The Good Stuff

For our paying members only let's now walk through the shorter- and longer-term outlooks for the S&P500, the Nasdaq, the Dow and the Russell.

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