MDM has switched to a BUY signal. Tech juggernauts and other leading names looking decent for further upside. Wednesday's CPI came in cool at 0.1% below expectations across the board for both normal and core MoM and YoY. Investors will focus on the Fed’s economic projections, the dot-plot, for the rest of the year during Powell's testimony at 2pm EST today. It could signal one, two, or even no cuts ahead. Before today's CPI number, Fed officials were looking for two cuts this year while 10 were looking for one or none.
The tally has been a series of 3 hot CPI reports, one cool CPI report, one cool PCE report, and one hot nonfarm payrolls report where both wages and unemployment came in 0.1% above estimates. Given the election year and today's cool CPI report, this gives the Fed room to lower rates twice more this year. Stealth QE remains intact.
M2 is starting to grow once again:![](https://c10.patreonusercontent.com/4/patreon-media/p/post/106015092/3752e108317c4931b024846efa1723fd/e30%3D/1.png?token-time=1719360000&token-hash=_3R6FnqwYIU_FVucFGoWli64An7IacrfDLizRwJTKCc%3D)
US treasury debt issuance is soaring not just because of the growing US debt mountain fed by an annual $1.7 trillion deficit but also some $9 trillion of debt is maturing that requires refinancing for which the US requires more stealth QE. Expect higher consumer and asset prices most every nation is inflating their own respective debt bubbles with maturing debt that needs to be constantly rolled over. All aboard the inflation mega-trend train via stealth QE.
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SPY (S&P 500)
QQQ (NASDAQ-100)
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QLD (NASDAQ-100)
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TECL (Direxion Trust Technology)
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