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The 'resilience' of stock markets is proclaimed as self-reflectingly positive, as they surge higher, enthusiastically embracing debt ceiling anxiety, nuclear armageddon, and biblical floods. However, below the surface all is very much not rosy...

As Bloomberg reports, this is a warning for stock traders entranced by a market that remains resilient to surprises. Even though the S&P 500 is less than 1 percent away from a record set this month, the best move is to wait out more selling, according to Strategas Research Partners.

With just one month left until the "X Date", better known as the first day on which Treasury has exhausted its borrowing authority and no longer has sufficient funds to pay all of its bills in full and on time, and also known as the date the US is technically in default on its debt obligations and would be forced to prioritize debt payments according to that infamous 2011 Fed transcript...

Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com,

A Chinese T-shirt company is setting up shop in Arkansas, lured by U.S. sewbots and lower production costs. It will cost about 33 cents to produce a shirt.

Please consider China Snaps Up America’s Cheap Robot Labor.

“Made in America” will soon grace the labels of T-shirts produced by a Chinese company in Little Rock.

 

The smell of currency war is rising in the air.

Less than six hours after the ECB lobbed the first trial balloon of the day, when Reuters reported that ECB policymakers were "growing worried" about the recent rapid gains in the Euro, sending the EURUSD sharply, if briefly lower, the entire move is now a distant memory following jawboning from US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who moments ago said on CNBC that "having a weaker dollar is somewhat better for trade", a statement which immediately spooked algos into dumping the USD...

Following a plunge in existing home sales and new home sales, pending home sales slumped in July, dropping 0.8% MoM (missing expectations of a 0.3% rise). This completes the triple whammy of misses and drops for July's housing data...