Presently, all eight BEGOS Markets are within today’s Neutral Zones, and session volatility is light. The Gold Update cites price’s weekly parabolic trend as having confirmed the anticipated flip from Long-to-Short, but in the context that Short trends within the past two years have had negligible negativity, and thus in hindsight have been buying opportunities. Q3 Earnings Season is complete with 71% of S&P 500 reporting constituents improving their quarterly year-over-year bottom lines, which favourably compares with typical improvement of 66%; still, the overall level of earnings is far too low to maintain the “live” (futs-adj’d) P/E of the S&P of 51.8x at this instant. Copper’s cac volume is rolling from December into that for March. And whilst no fresh metrics are scheduled for the Econ Baro, there may be some “catch-up” data on IndProd/CapUtil for September, which of course we’ll duly incorporate.