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VRA Letter: The Market Soars on (more) Friendly Inflation Data. Unequivocally Bullish. Q4 Earnings Underway With Big Banks Crushing Estimates. Yardeni

Good Wednesday morning. Breaking: we came into the week forecasting weak inflation data and that continued this morning. Decembers CPI data is in and if you’re bullish on stocks (like us) it is excellent report, with CPI risin ...

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Good Wednesday morning. Breaking: we came into the week forecasting weak inflation data and that continued this morning. Decembers CPI data is in and if you’re bullish on stocks (like us) it is excellent report, with CPI rising just 2.9% (matching estimates) while core inflation came in weaker than expected (.2% m/m vs estimates of .3% m/m). More good news for stocks, bonds, precious metals/miners, housing, bitcoin and all interest rate sensitive groups.

On the news the markets are soaring. Dow Jones futures are +600 points (1.5%) with Nasdaq up and even bigger 362 points (1.7%). Gold is surging $31 with Bitcoin ramping higher to $98,900. The semis (SOXL) trading up a big 7% in premarket as well. The 10 year yield is falling sharply to 4.67%.

As bulls flipped to bearish over the last 3-4 weeks, we never revised our bullish views on the markets, nor our views that inflation is a rear view mirror concern. We remain unequivocally bullish. The front-running of Trump 2.0 continues.

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