Getting lots of data failures tonight. Missing things, inconsistencies, late reports. Unusual. I’m sitting here overriding processes and looking things up and doing manual data-entry.
At the same time, this is the most bearish I’ve seen the Xhitter timeline in… 18 months?
There are, like, three stocks going up today and the rest are going down. S&P up a tidy 0.60%.
I don’t know the exact shape of the problem that this is going to turn into, but it’s getting weird.
Contrary to the expectations of half a century of wargaming and economic papers, shutting the Strait of Hormuz has been the single best thing to have ever happened to the global economy.
Just understand that every time oil goes up, that’s just another *opportunity* for it to go down again, which is bullish for stocks. So actually oil going up is, itself, bullish for stocks, if you think about it.