As you may have expected, last week the market moved more into wind-down mode as the week progressed and dosed to a near-sleep on Friday’s half-day with the S&P500’s volume down 53%. This is the usual script at this time of year, so that the market ignored the WTI crude oil price, which it had recently been closely correlated to, when it moved from last week’s close $34.73 per barrel to this week’s price of $38.10, an increase of 3.38%. The market still languishes in its ‘under...
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