COVID-19 UPDATE: Not all cases created equally. Market is telling us it is comfortable with faster testing

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Financial markets, in my view, are heavily linked to macro trends, particularly the path of COVID-19.  While many people might disagree, a simple way to test is whether a rotation into "cyclical" and "epicenter" stocks will take place once we get conclusive improvements in trend.  FYI, we will be following a shortened publication schedule this week:- Monday morning- Tuesday morning- Wednesday morning- Thursday morning (9/3)Labor Day holiday --> no reports Friday and Monday - Tuesday morning (9/8)STRATEGY: Epicenter stocks barely "budged" last week...The most interesting development over the past week is the market's "rethink" around cases:- first, we are seeing cases rise due to "back to school," particularly large outbreaks at colleges- second, the NY Times had a story over the weekend about how PCR tests might be overly sensitive and 90% of "positive" tests barely had virus- third, US deaths are fallingAnd if this is true, that markets and Americans are beginning to look "past cases," we are in a situation similar to April and May.  If we look at the chart below, that was a period of explosive outperformance of epicenter stocks vs FANG.  For epicenter, we are using the ETF SPHB.- as shown be...

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