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Lack of US market & macro volatility both reassuring and troubling

Olivier Desbarres

4X Global Research (4XGR)
January 17, 2020

US market and macro metrics stable…with the exception of flying equities
The metronomic rise in US equity indices to new record highs, spurred in part by the recent detent in US-China trade relations, is understandably making the headlines. The S&P 500, which yesterday breach...

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