Silver Soars As Turbocharged-Tech Sends “Greed’ To Record High

SSDD!! More vacuous vaccine headlines and a spurious tech stocks upgrade sent a message to the bears (for today)…

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After a brief pause at the end of last week, buying big tech stocks is back on the agenda, with Nasdaq massively outperforming today…(NOTE how linear today’s rally was)

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And as Nasdaq surged, Small caps underperformed, reversing much of last week’s “reversal”

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This has sent Bloomberg’s Fear-Greed indicator to its highest ever – above March 2000’s previous peak – and as @C_Barraud notes that these highs contrasted with a plunge in March that produced record weekly lows, surpassing those in December 2018 and May 2000.

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The surge in tech was sparked by a Goldman and Jefferies upgrade for AMZN…

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…erasing FANG stocks’ losses from Friday… (despite Goldman warning that all the big tech valuations are massively expensive)

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And TSLA back to its old tricks…

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Treasury yields ended the day marginally lower but bonds were sold from

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Treasury vol has tumbled near record lows…

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The dollar dropped back to its recent range lows…

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Crypto weakened into the cash equity close today but held gains barely from Friday…

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Commodities were all generally higher on the day with silver dramatically outperforming…

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Silver futures topped $20 for the first time since Sept 2016…

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Finally, just saying…

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