The S&P 500 closed at an ATH of 4,232.60 which was up from 4,181.17 last Friday. The big news on Friday was a pretty massive miss on non-farm payrolls. It came it significantly below expectations but markets shrugged it off and understandably so given that it takes a lot of pressure off the Fed to begin ‘thinking about thinking about’ Tapering. Jay Powell’s life was probably made significantly easier by this morning’s miss, particularly after Janet Yellen talked out of school on rates recently.

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That being said, we think this number is usually prone to noise in normal circumstances and even more so in the anomalous times we live in. Normal markets are like the blues; steady, relatively repeatable, and predictable progressions. If you’re a musician you know that you can jam with anyone as long as you both know the 12 bar blues and your scales. This is not the case with jazz. In environments like this (blues-like or markets dominated by endogenous cycles) Wall Street that has a special advantage in a more normal environment as computing power and math are particularly valuable in these tamer cycles in making sense of data.

The markets we’re living in today in the hopefully soon-to-be post-COVID-19 reality are much more like jazz. Staggered,...

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