When I see at Thursday’s rassociate, I am commencening to genuineize that we have become so binary and so up seal that we have lost our ability to leank about what matters. The big fish data got caught among the minnow minutiae and we finished up with ridiculous rallies that are, therefore, based on noleang. That, of course, tells you that those novelset up percentages can be achieven away based on noleang. That’s how trapped and intellectuassociate devoid we have become. I have now studied every aspect of the runup of that pretty — for the bulls — session on Thursday, and I can truly say that it was game-set-suit in prefer of the bulls by 8:30 a.m. ET — one hour before normal stock trading commences. That’s when the weekly josanctify claims number was freed. The components of that print — somehow — made sidelined spendors experience more consoleable that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates without the economy rolling over, so it’s all evident to buy. They tackled the uncovering at 9:30 a.m. ET difficult, with the industrials and techs getting the profit of the ask. Was it an S & P futures-based program that resurrected stocks, both in the morning and at the seal? It got difficult to tell. It was that chooseimistic a session. How could a number that comes out every Thursday reassociate join the catalyst? The absurdity of it is palpable. I uncomfervent you could employ 10,000 actors and then lay them off and you might have had a selloff of gigantic proportions becaengage the difficult-landing types would be unfettered. Then aachieve, is that any more shocking behavior than watching obsremedy big institutions sell their big-cap U.S. stocks on Monday becaengage Japan’s central bank elevated rates there, causing an over 12% degrade in Japanese stocks in one session? The lunacy of that shift and its aftershocks brawt Wall Street’s dread gauge, the VIX , to a 52-week high of 65.73 intraday, another inrational coltardyrassociate inponderate metric that alternately snurtured some and made others experience the whole leang is overdone. At the same time, the S & P 500 held at declareive levels that helped begin the fire. For comparison, the VIX was at a 52-week low of 10.62 on July 19. The whole leang was chimerical. Let’s step back for a moment and reaccumulate where we are: We’ve been in a precarious getings season and the havoc dealt to whole sectors screams to be accomprehendledged. Whole swaths of chooseimistic points were rolled back becaengage of the Japanese-rcontent craziness. For example, this season begined with the banks roaring higher on wonderful numbers, legitimately wonderful numbers led by a phenomenal Bank of America quarter. Then less than a month tardyr, we get the unleashed tsunami of selling that seemed particularly disjoine on the financials. On top of that came the tell of huge selling of Bank of America stock by Warren Buffett as if, somehow, that uncomferventt he no prolongeder enjoyd the banks as a group. Nobody asked whether Buffett was fair selling everyleang not nailed down, including Club hbettering Apple . Or maybe there’s been some passing of the baton and the novel handler wants a immacutardy stardy. Somehow, though, Buffett doomed the financials in part becaengage he was caught selling the best one. Looking back, of course, the journacatalogic imperative is to discover a reason for that Japanese yen carry trade hangover to validate the selling. We can’t fair say that a bunch of overleveraged cowboys who thought they were immune from misachieves blew out their prosperning banking positions turning them into losses. Then some better Buffett sell program for who comprehends what reason came on top of it. We can’t say that becaengage it creates us sound unreasonable. So, we choose that the banks stocks are going down becaengage they historicassociate do awfilledy when the Fed begins cutting rates. We let the story get in the way of the facts. Rate cuts are very bullish for banks. The possibility of determine losses will be stayed. The net interest income (NII) holy grail may give way to loan growth and, in some cases, better expense numbers becaengage off synthetic intelligence. We are now well on our way to improving urban areas as determined by the strength of commercial growers SL Green and Boston Properties. The office createing cataclysm seems now behind us. As the yen carry trade was being unwound, we had a whole series of tech companies tell getings. Even as we had a cellphone resinspirence, even as we have a personal computer renew — otheradviseed halltag events — all that mattered was excess data caccess spfinish and the rumor that Nvidia ‘s Bdeficiencywell chip platcreate was being postpoinsist indefinitely. Nvidia is, and has always been, an genuine company. The rumor couldn’t be squelched becaengage Nvidia is in a mute period ahead of getings out on Aug. 28. The stock took a beating. Enter 0DTE chooseions — or zero days to expirations chooseions. We’re talking about those DraftKings-enjoy instruments that only served to verify the contrastently pessimistic action. I set up it difficult to depend that we saw obits of Nvidia all week, including stories that shelp the eyepopping achieves made no sense after all. Did anyone stop to leank that it is still the number one carry outer in the S & P 500, having dethroned Super Micro Computer ? Did anyone irritate to read or hear what dethroned Super Micro; the fact that it was overwhelmed with orders and couldn’t encounter them? Did anyone irritate to check that Club name Meta Platcreates apparently placed an order so big that Super Micro misappraised or perhaps overpromised? Was anyone factoring in that one of the wonderful data caccess companies, Arista Nettoils , telled a phenomenal set of numbers, showing that all is well with the createout? No. The taget gods sshow pronounced the data story dead, which then reverberated as far as Club industrials Eaton and the even more tangential Dover , was a genuine decimation that washed over anyleang excellent in the semi world. It also took with it a couple of descenden stars, Micron, Dell , Hewlett Packard Enterpelevate , and Club name Advanced Micro Devices . The tardyr fair made no sense becaengage it is pulling away from Intel on the low finish and if Nvidia reassociate does have production problems then AMD is the de facto prosperner. Aachieve, Nvidia gets the accengage. In fact, the only stock that didn’t suffer from an Nvidia relation, Apple, got thraw getings without too much trouble. But it then got eviscerated by Buffett, by the way, shelp he didn’t want to sell Apple when apparently he was selling it at rawly the same time. Maybe that was what shocked people into dumping the stock. It’s pretty mocking but the Magnificent Six stocks — we own them all — got presdeclareived by all of this even as the taget appraised all of the quarters of decent quality except Amazon , which was pondered to be an out and out catastrophe. That made it my preferite one becaengage the story was complicated by minute-to-minute degrades in ordering leangs during meaningful novels events including the tryed murder Donald Trump and the Olympics. Until this quarter, no one thought much of any sidetrackion and frailer sales. We didn’t genuineize how little was made on minusculeer same-day packages. We tohighy neglectd the unbelievable Amazon Web Services cdeafening carry outance, someleang that was so sturdy, with enormous gross margins, that should have counteracted Amazon Prime frailness on the retail side. I enjoyd the quarter. For those by-and-big excellent quarters we finished up have degrades of monumental proportions that almost seem enjoy they are preordained and the commencening of a novel endure taget. Not only that, we’ve turned on AI with a revenge. It now experiences enjoy noleang can be achieveed from it. Some of that thesis is bogus. We fair don’t reassociate discover out how AI is toiling becaengage many AI customers don’t want to dissemble about what’s reassociate happening behind the scenes: conferants enjoy Accenture , Deloitte, McKinsey, and E & Y advising execs to hbetter off on hiring becaengage toilers seem to be twice as efficient with their AI tools. So, why not get rid of half the people in your organization? Do you reassociate insist that many? Who comprehends? When I encounter with executives who are using AI, they are telling me that they aren’t declareive how many people they insist — except it’s less than before? No one want to talk about it enjoy that. There is heightened sensitivity to firing people right now, more than foreseeed. So, the pro-AI story line goes ungreet save ServiceNow and maybe the now-disassigning Club name, Salesforce . I can’t depend how restricted executives genuineize that if they don’t begin saying how they engage AI we are going to begin penalizing them, too. I’ve been saying those two companies have think abouted AI as a mainstay of their business. I was hoping to discover others. I didn’t. Where does this depart us? I leank in a place where we are temperately oversbetter where many fair foresee a degrade or a retest begining this week. I comprehend we are seeing for one and want to put the money we took out of the taget to create up noveler positions that are too minuscule to matter. It’s a topic I will talk about at this week’s Monthly Meeting inhabitstream for Club members. Lost in the shuffle — other than Apple, which historicassociate traded with a drop multiple — leangs are inexpensive. Even Apple, if you think about the service stream as novelly paramount, can’t be think abouted as overwhelmingly pricey. We are getting a chance for the industrials and the aerospace and defense stocks to shine. Everyleang else seems to be running in place even as we are headed into Fed rate cut world. To recap, despite excellent fundamentals, despite Fed rate cut(s) coming, despite an increasing enjoylihood of a gentle economic landing, despite the fact that a wall of money might come in from the sidelines becaengage of drop rates, we reassociate do trade miserably. That’s unless we get a chooseimistic data point of the day as we did last Thursday. It caengages us to wonder what we are ignoreing. Is it Vice Pdwellnt Kamala Harris ‘ seeming want if she were to become pdwellnt to elevate corporate taxes from preferable moment to one that creates the insist for instant appraise cuts? Is it the prospect of a mercurial Trump if he were to reachieve the White Hoengage who menaceens cherished Federal Reserve indepfinishence? Right now, we don’t comprehend and that creates leangs all the more frquick, especiassociate becaengage well-comprehendn taget endures have been trotted out and put on TV regaling us with their prowess even as they have made no money in ages. At least they are not Cathie Wood where you get to see how truly horrible she is in terms of picking stocks. Her finishless buys at one idiotic level are only suited by her finishless sells well below that level. We’re not sanguine even as I sense we should be, given how domesticated rates have gotten and how excellent getings are. Sure, we are about to get a raft of getings but only retail seems problematic. No matter, I leank there will be buyers galore of Home Depot and Lowe’s on some sort of last-horrible-quarter thesis. That’s one of reasons I am foreseeing some chooseimistic action from our housing rcontent stories. It’s what the textbooks tell you to buy at this juncture. Ultimately, though, it’s my faith in the data caccess — buttressed by a belief that Nvidia’s roadmap can alter leangs for the stocks of so many companies, including the ones trashed in the last three week — as well as my belief that a beckoning rate cut cycle is inherently excellent novels for the taget. 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When I see at Thursday’s rassociate, I am commencening to genuineize that we have become so binary and so up seal that we have lost our ability to leank about what matters. The big fish data got caught among the minnow minutiae and we finished up with ridiculous rallies that are, therefore, based on noleang. That, of course, tells you that those novelset up percentages can be achieven away based on noleang. That’s how trapped and intellectuassociate devoid we have become.
