Wednesday, July 16, 2025

The Morning Call---Should one man have this kind of power?

 

The Morning Call

 

7/16/25

 

The Market

         

    Technical

 

            Tuesday in the charts.

            https://www.zerohedge.com/market-recaps/semis-cpi-spark-surge-big-tech-buck-bullion-bitcoin-bonds-dumped

 

                Tuesday in the technical stats.

            https://www.barchart.com/stocks/momentum

            https://www.barchart.com/stocks/sectors/rankings

 

            Tech euphoria meets historic fund FOMO.

            https://www.zerohedge.com/the-market-ear/tech-euphoria-meets-historic-fund-fomo

 

            Finding and trading edges in the market.

            https://traderfeed.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-psychology-of-finding-and-trading.html

 

            GDX: longer term uptrend intact.

            https://talkmarkets.com/content/etfs/gdx-longer-term-uptrend-intact?post=509318

 

            Goldman on crypto.

            https://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/goldman-crypto-what-has-changed

 

    Fundamental

 

       Headlines

 

              The Economy

 

                        US

 

Weekly mortgage applications fell 10.0% while purchase applications were down 7.0%.

 

Month to date retail chain store sales grew slightly slower than in the prior week.

 

June PPI came in at 0.0% versus forecasts of +0.2%; core PPI was also 0.0% versus +0.2%.

https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/us-producer-prices-blow-tariff-flation-narrative

 

 

                        International

 

The May EU trade balance was E16.2 billion versus expectations of E13.0 billion.

 

The June UK CPI was +0.3% versus estimates of +0.2%; core CPI was +0.4% versus +0.2%.

 

                        Other

 

                          Some interesting observations on the economy from Scott Gannis.

                          https://scottgrannis.blogspot.com/2025/07/charts-of-interest.html

 

            Fiscal Policy

 

              How big, bad or beautiful?

              https://www.civitasinstitute.org/research/how-big-bad-or-beautiful

 

              Bessent’s interest rate bet could be a loser.

              https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-07-15/bessent-s-interest-rate-bet-could-be-a-big-loser?srnd=homepage-americas&sref=loFkkPMQ

 

            Inflation

 

              Is inflation stuck at 3%?

              Is Inflation Stuck At 3.0% Because Of Trump's Tariffs?

 

            Tariffs

 

              Should any one man have this kind of power?

              https://alhambrapartners.com/weekly-market-pulse-the-return-of-tariff-man/?src=news

 

              Trump’s 50% copper tariffs jolt market.

              https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-15/trump-s-50-copper-tariff-slows-us-imports-and-demand?srnd=homepage-americas&sref=loFkkPMQ

 

              How should our trading allies respond to Trump’s tariff?

              https://mishtalk.com/economics/how-should-the-eu-mexico-china-and-canada-respond-to-trumps-tariffs/

 

     Investing

 

            Q2 earnings season preview.

            https://www.advisorperspectives.com/commentaries/2025/07/14/q2-2025-earnings-preview

 

                The everything rally rolls on.

            https://www.capitalspectator.com/the-everything-rally-in-2025-rolls-on/

 

            Is the dollar’s era of exorbitant privilege about to end?

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-07-15/us-dollar-s-exorbitant-privilege-may-end-with-trump-administration?srnd=homepage-americas&sref=loFkkPMQ

 

            Avoiding market noise.

            https://behaviouralinvestment.com/2025/07/15/bring-the-noise/

 

    News on Stocks in Our Portfolios

 

Johnson & Johnson Non-GAAP EPS of $2.77 beats by $0.09, revenue of $23.7B beats by $840M

 

Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) declares $1.30/share quarterly dividend, in line with previous.

 

What I am reading today

 

           

                        Descartes: the French liar.

            https://aeon.co/essays/was-rene-descartes-a-self-centred-guru-and-a-lying-fraud

 

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