FRIDAY 9/14/18; China Economic Data; NIKK (Japan) Rallies +1.2%; KOSPI (South Korea) Jumps +1.4%; PLAY; Retail Sales; Import and Export Prices; Industrial Production; Business Inventories; Consumer Sentiment; TRAN (Dow Transports) Print Record High; President Trump Rattles Market with $200 Billion Tariff Talk

Euro 1.1690. Dollar/yen 112.05. Pound 1.311. Aussie dollar 0.7186. Dollar/yuan 6.8448. Dollar/yuan, offshore, USD-CNH, 6.8453. Turkish lira 6.1295. Korean won 1121. Indonesian rupiah 14840. Philippine peso 54.061. Indian rupee 72.185.

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SUNDAY 9/9/8; Sweden Election; Rosh Hashanah

Hermit kingdom North Korea celebrates its 70th anniversary as a nation. The military parade does not display the intercontinental ballistic missiles from prior events to show that NoKo is cooperating with seeking peace on the peninsula. The goose-stepping soldiers are on full display but nuclear weapons are 

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SATURDAY 9/8/18

SPX 2872. INDU 25917. COMPQ 7903. RUT 1713. NIKK 22307. SPASX200 6144. KOSPI 2282. SSEC 2702. HSI 26973. BSE 38390. DAX 11960. CAC 5252. FTSE 7278. MIB 20448. IBEX 9171. PSI 5233.

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FRIDAY 9/7/18; China Awaits Potential $200 Billion in US Tariffs; US Monthly Jobs Report; Fed Speak; President Trump Threatens China with $267 Billion Additional Tariffs on Top of the $200 Billion Creating a Stock Market Selloff

Euro 1.1623. Euro/yen 128.67. Dollar/yen 110.666. Pound 1.2928. Euro/pound 0.8991. Mexican peso 19.2353. Canadian dollar 1.3154. Dollar/yuan 6.8355. Indian rupee 71.99. Aussie dollar 0.7198. The New Zealand dollar, kiwi, is at 0.659 as RBA Governor Orr comments on the dominance of short-term thinking in financial markets.

US futures are 


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TSLA bounces +0.5% clawing back a smidgeon of its -6.3% loss during the regular session on news that Tesla managers and executives are appointed to new positions. TSLA is bludgeoned -13% this week and down -32% off its top one month ago when CEO Musk allegedly fabricated the story about Tesla going private. If you owned $18,000 in Tesla stock in early August it is now worth $12,000. Musk the party-boy is out of control and behaving erratically.

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SATURDAY 9/1/18

The S&P 500, Nasdaq Composite, Nasdaq 100, Russell 2000, Australia’s ASX 200 and India’s BSE Sensex all print record highs this past week. SPX 2902. INDU 25965. COMPQ 8110. NDX 7655. RUT 1741. NIKK 22865. SPASX200 6320. KOSPI 2323. SSEC 2725. HSI 27889. BSE 38645. DAX 12364. CAC 5407. FTSE 7432. MIB 20269. IBEX 9399. PSI 5423.

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FRIDAY 8/31/18; EOM (End-of-Month); Emerging Market Currency Crisis Contagion; BOK Rate Decision; BIG; Chicago PMI; Consumer Sentiment; Italy in Turmoil; Argentina Receiving Life-Line from IMF; US-Canada Trade Talks Break Down but Will Resume Next Week; RUT, AAPL and AMZN Print All-Time Highs

Emerging market currencies are in trouble around the globe. The Indonesia rupiah, Indian rupee, Argentinian peso, South African rand and Turkish lira are in 

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