It Isn't Just Fed Pumping Driving The Market

The market is purely being driven by liquidity and pumping from the world's central banks*.

*Except for a few things, such as...

Initial jobless claims that keep grinding lower.

FRED

Chicago-era hiring intentions at the highest level since 1984.

ISM Chicago

And a rebound in housing starts.

FRED

And rising car sales.

FRED

Better and better readings from the Dallas Federal Reserve.

Dallas Fed

And a nice uptick in the Richmond Fed Manufacturing Survey.

Richmond Fed

And a collapse in anxiety about finding a job.

Reuters

And a big upswing in Gallup's survey of economic confidence.

Gallup

And a long string of positive numbers in Citi's Economic Surprise Index

Bloomberg

And, well... We could go on , but you get the point.

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