Week ends on strong note with every sector up today; interesting that today’s leadership bedfellows are Tech & Energy, given both are on opposite ends of the performance spectrum YTD … small caps outpaced large caps today but struggled this week and continue to lag YTD 
Another Fed rate hike gets slightly (2.8%) priced in following jobs report this morning 
Huge improvement here: prime-age labor force participation rate rose to 83.3% in April, which is highest since March 2008
Payrolls change by industry/sector 
sector highlights (prior month):
Education/health +77k (+60k)
Professional/bus. services +43k (+23k)
Leisure/hospitality +31k (+40k)
Financial activities +23k (-1k)
Construction +15k (-11k)
Manufacturing +11k (-8k)
Retail +8k (-20k)
Mining/logging +7k (+2k)
Wholesale trade -2k (+1k)
Temp. help -23k (-19k)
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Every failed bank that falls into hands of industry’s giants contributes to decades-long consolidation trend in banking sector; number of U.S. banks down drastically from peak in early-1980s when there were 14,469 U.S. commercial banks; by end of last year, it was down to 4,135
@StatistaCharts @FDICgov
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Every failed bank that falls into hands of industry’s giants contributes to decades-long consolidation trend in banking sector; number of U.S. banks down drastically from peak in early-1980s when there were 14,469 U.S. commercial banks; by end of last year, it was down to 4,135
@StatistaCharts @FDICgov
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avoid monday
• expansion tuesday
market maker sell model - distribution
$NQ [+140]
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avoid monday
• expansion tuesday
market maker sell model - distribution
$NQ [+140]
#investing #investment #trading #bitcoin #btc #nostr #amethyst #plebs #pleb #lightningnetwork #zapping #nostriches #finance #America #forex #analysis #grownostr
avoid monday
• expansion tuesday
market maker sell model - distribution
$NQ [+140]
#investing #investment #trading #bitcoin #btc #nostr #amethyst #plebs #pleb #lightningnetwork #zapping #nostriches #finance #America #forex #analysis #grownostr 
avoid monday
• expansion tuesday
market maker sell model - distribution
$NQ [+140]
#investing #investment #trading #bitcoin #btc #nostr #amethyst #plebs #pleb #lightningnetwork #zapping #nostriches #finance #America #forex #analysis #grownostr 
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avoid monday
• expansion tuesday
market maker sell model - distribution
$NQ [+140]
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Trimmed Mean PCE from @DallasFed (year/year % terms) has reaccelerated since start of year … thru March, annual rate rose to +4.68% 
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Update to largest bank failures in U.S. history given this week's events means second, third, and fourth largest have all occurred in past two months
@Bloomberg @FDICgov 
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Home improvement spending's trend continues to weaken, falling to -2% year/year in March ... no decisive recession signal, given it’s been in this zone before during recessions (2001), but also had worse decline without recession (2018) 
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NASDAQ 100 weakened relative to Russell 2000 last year, but flight to large caps this year has sent ratio of both back to where it was in early-2022 and mid-2020
[Past performance is no guarantee of future results] 
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Worth watching ISM Manufacturing prices component, which climbed in April to highest since July 2022 … index has been moving up since December, but good news for now is that it's nowhere near recent peak
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