Market When Open - Friday 17 May

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Are Markets Actually Open?

by Alex King

Today is a watching-paint-dry kind of day. There aren’t usually too many of those. Equity indices are mainly flat, the 10yr yield is up a little but nothing dramatic, oil up a touch, etc. Yawn. Now, boring days in a bull market are a good thing. Thursday and today the market had an opportunity to dump after the CPI rally, in order to take the money from all the late bulls who bought in post CPI, but no such dumpage has occurred. That too is bullish. More than that I am not sure there is much to say save to head to our usual charts.

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