Nowcasts for NY and St. Louis Feds out today; St. Louis up from 1.14% to 1.73% q/q AR. NY Fed, and GS tracking unchanged at 3.2%.

The miners had a strong week as GDXJ and SILJ gained 2% on the week and Silver lost 2% and Gold gained only $8/oz.

Once again, stocks managed to shake off risk-weariness in the morning, gave a little, and held it into the afternoon. VIX drifted lower.

Corporate insiders are about as bearish on the future prospects of earnings and stock prices as ever before.

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Total earnings for the S&P 500 index are expected to be up +3.6% from the same period last year on +4.5% higher revenues.

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OpenAI’s ChatGPT leads the generative AI market by a wide margin, accounting for 82.5% of total web traffic among 40 generative AI tools analyzed in the study.

For the third week in a row (and 9th week in the last 10), money-market funds saw inflows (+$11.3BN), pushing total AUM to a new record high ($6.474TN).

The market has spent the better part of three weeks bouncing around in an incredibly tight range - we haven’t touched the expected move since September.