Comm Serv soared today and is now back in first place YTD (still trailing Energy by 0.1% MTD); Tech did well today, too, but is still down by nearly 4% MTD … NASDAQ’s 2% gain today bumped it to third place YTD; small caps did well but didn’t outpace large caps (and they continue… pic.twitter.com/HAiuVWX0FF

This week’s #markets were supposed to be mainly about earnings, with macro taking more of a back seat ahead of next week’s US #jobs data, the #FederalReserve meeting, #China’s PMI, etc (more on this in the weekly look ahead that I will post later). Earnings did have a notable… pic.twitter.com/8lYAakVct5

Interest rates matter, especially rising rates when the stocks/bonds correlation is positive. So far, the 10-year yield has once again risen to the stock market’s “uncle” point, and this has happened without a rise in the term premium. The last time bond yields caused stocks to… pic.twitter.com/UEe53yrs5D

In my view, the stock market remains in both a cyclical and secular bull market. Based on the median cyclical bull market (which has produced a 90% rally over 30 months), we are only in the 4th or 5th inning, but compared to the shorter bull markets that were produced during the… pic.twitter.com/UloqXydujn