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Stocks were mostly positive to start the new week as traders and investors position themselves for tomorrow important CPI report, and we get closer to earnings season. After the weaker than expected jobs report on Friday, there is optimism that the CPI will show inflation sliding down closer to the Fed's target area of 2%. The Dow gained over 200-points on the day and small caps led with another big rally. Bonds rallied as yields eased off of the recent highs, but the 10-year remains above 4%. ...

After a more favorable jobs report, if you want to call a weaker than expected jobs report favorable, stocks rallied in the morning on Friday. This came on the heals of Thursday's extremely strong ADP employment report that scared the market and sent stocks reeling. Perhaps the selling was an overreaction because buyers showed up on Friday morning to buy the less inflationary June monthly Jobs Report result. But by early afternoon, the buying stopped, and the selling resumed and the big morning ...

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The holiday week did not add fuel to the late June rally but provided an entry point for those who missed it. We witnessed many TSP investors quickly use up their first July IFT to get into stock funds this week on the Last Look Report, but many of them were a day or two too early. Stock action was relatively light hearted in the days surrounding the 4th of July holiday. The TSP stock funds were already down for the week heading into Thursday, but the damage was ...

Stocks were blindsided on Thursday by a very strong ADP weekly employment number that more than doubled estimated. The Fed has been waiting for the labor market to weaken so they can stop raising interest rates and this was anything but weak. Perhaps it was a one off report, but investors went scrambling just in case. We'll get the June jobs report this morning and yesterday's data suggests that this number could be hot as well, but you never know as these reports seem to be unpredictable. Maybe ...

Wednesday saw what we might consider a post-holiday reversal, and I'll get into that a little more below, but suffice it to say, stocks pulled back modestly after last week's pre-holiday rally. We did see some buying after the initial opening decline, so the bulls are not dead by any means, but with the S&P 500 gaining about 17% in the first half of the year, perhaps it won't be so easy in the second half. The dollar was up making the I-fund the laggard, and a pop higher in yields gave the ...