Into the new week we’ve presently both the Euro and Spoo above today’s Neutral Zones; none of the other BEGOS Markets are below same, and volatility is mostly moderate. The Gold Update (as was the case a week ago) gives a near-term bearish bias strictly by technicals and the deMeadville proprietary measures (see Gold under BEGOS Markets): an affective metric this week shall be Friday’s release of PCE inflation data; either way, Gold completed an eighth consecutive up week for just the fifth time (mutually-exclusive basis) this century and currently priced at 2954 is -46 points below “Golden Goal Two” of “milestone 3000”. Nothing is due today for the Econ Baro. And, barring laggards, this is the final week of Q4 Earnings Season: with 402 S&P 500 constituents thus far having reported, 69% have improved their bottom lines from Q4 of 2023, a somewhat better-than-average improvement pace; problematic remains the extreme 45.2x P/E ratio.