Month: August 2022

MON: EU Defence Ministers Meeting (1/2), UK Summer Bank Holiday; Australian Retail Sales (Jul), Swedish Trade Balance (Jul). TUE: EU Defence Ministers Meeting (1/2), NBH Policy Announcement; Japanese Unemployment (Jul), German CPI Prelim. (Aug), UK BoE Consumer Credit (Jul), EZ Consumer Confidence Final (Aug), US Consumer Confidence (Aug), JOLTS (Jul). WED: Japanese Retail Sales (Jul),
<ul><li>S&P 500 down 143 points or 3.4% to 4057</li><li>Nasdaq down 3.9%</li><li>DJIA down 3.0%</li><li>Russell 2000 -3.4%</li></ul><p>Powell won't be getting too many backslaps from anyone at Jackson Hole tonight.</p><p>The old saying is that market's don't bottom on Friday's either and that data bears it out. <a href="https://twitter.com/bespokeinvest" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Bespoke </a>shows that a 3% decline on a Friday