Despite declining earnings expectations, AAPL's share price just broke above its record closing high (from Feb 2015).
As WSJ notes, the tech giant’s shares–among the most widely held and actively traded in the world–hit $133.42 moments ago, trading above their record close of $133 from February 2015. And they’re inches away from their all-time intraday high of $134.54, set in April 2015.
Thanks Bloomberg, for another useless piece of regurgitated info we've known for years; fake news drives the fake markets which are artificially inflated. Actually thanks to the Fed for doing the academic research on this topic to confirm what we've known for years - the markets are rigged and one way they are manipulated is by the mainstream news. As we explain in our book Splitting Pennies - the markets are artifically inflated and manipulated by remote control (yes - that remote control. It's a metaphor!) TV watchers have a 'remote control' and so does the CIA.
Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,
If an ossified, self-serving status quo refuses to adapt, collapse is the only way forward.
When everything's going great, nobody questions the nation's core institutions: they must be doing a great job because everything's going great.
The key economic releases this week are CPI, retail sales, and industrial production on Wednesday. In addition, there are several scheduled speaking engagements from Fed officials this week, including Chair Yellen’s semi-annual Monetary Policy Report to Congress on Tuesday and Wednesday (Humphrey-Hawkins).