The CPI numbers were surprisingly bad. CPI going up means the Fed will raise interest rates, which is bad for the market. So people shorted. Then they got squeezed. Then the market kind of leveled off and went up.
Does the market not care about inflation any more?
At 8:15AM we were either going to flag or continue dropping. Seemed to go nowhere. About 4 hours in there was a clear drift upward.
I was also surprised by the lack of volume on a CPI day. TSLA was only 214 million. Slightly higher than yesterday.
Maybe it’s Valentine’s Day.
NVDA, AI, UBER and TSLA were leaders. GOOGL was having trouble, in a continuation of their perceived AI failure.