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Market Leadership Is Narrow, Increasing Summer Risk Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, 📈Technical Backdrop – Friday Selloff Tests The Tape The S&P 500 closed Friday at 7,408.50, surrendering Thursday’s historic first close above 7,500 with a 1.24% decline. The semiconductor names that powered the rally became the source of Friday’s selling. Intel fell 5%, Micron 4%, AMD 3%, and Nvidia 4.4%. From a purely technical standpoint, Friday’s reversal was the first real distribution day in three weeks and the mean-reversion signal we have been flagging. The deviation numbers are the story. At 7.0% above the...

Taiwan Test Fires US Mobile Launchers Into Waters Directly Facing China For First Time China's PLA military has long been known to intimidate and threaten the self-ruled island of Taiwan, mainly with large military exercises which sometime encircle it partially or completely, or else with a heavy naval boat presence in the Strait of Hormuz. Taiwan's military often reacts by scrambling its own fighter jets to closely monitor the PLA maneuvers - seen as a natural defensive and reactive move. But this week, in a rare moment, Taiwan is finally doing...

Rate-Hike Odds Slump As US Consumer Prices Plunge Most Since COVID In June With oil prices having tumbled (before this latest resurgence) but semiconductor prices soaring still, expectations were for a small 0.1% MoM decline in CPI but in fact it printed dramatically cooler, dropping 0.4% MoM - the biggest monthly decline since COVID (April 2020), dragging the YoY CPI change down to +3.5% YoY... Source: Bloomberg Both Goods and Services costs saw YoY growth decline... Energy dominated the decline while Core Services rose very modestly... CPI breakdown: Headline CPI down 0.4% MoM in...