We already discussed the worrying collapse in industrial metals, including copper. Doug Kass via Barry Ritholtz provides this chart which shows one of the reasons the move lower in copper is worrying:
This isn’t comforting at all.

Last week we discussed Doug Kass’s increasingly constructive stance on the market. Since then the market had a short, but strong, run and some disappointing economic data. His upside was around 10% over 12 months. In my way of looking at things, I thought the potential for negative economic outcomes was higher than Doug, but...
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Doug Kass updates Where I now Stand with a recitation for why the Fed is now powerless. As before I find his thoughts reasonable when it comes to the market, but with some caveats on the risk reward ratio.
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Doug Kass sets down some reasonable scenarios moving forward. I believe the potential for profit margin contraction more severe than he does, even without a deep recession. In general the scenarios and probabilities seem reasonable to me though and the whole piece is well worth reading...
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Yesterday was one fo the best days ever for the stock markets: What does it mean? I think it ultimately depends on factors unrelated to the move itself. Econompic provides us with some context: Obviously large one day moves in and of themselves tell us little about what is to come. So, let us...
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