Now that Q2 is over, we can reflect upon one market that showed relatively persistent weakness: emerging markets.
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Make ALL Markets Like This
One of the few broad charts that has been in a clear, defiant, screw-the-bulls downtrend has been emerging markets. Every attempt to artificially prop it higher has been smacked across the skull with a sledgehammer, and even yesterday’s ill-fated attempt to fake out the public has yielded nothing more than an island reversal pattern. If only everything else could look like this. Seeing the NASDAQ wiped out over the next five years would sure put a smile on my sour face, plus it would lighten up traffic where I live.
Fiscal Fitness
In spite of lifetime highs in most areas, the financials continue to look vulnerable. I mean, not everyone can be Netflix and Amazon, right? Anyway, the Analog From Hell is still utterly intact on the XLF:
