Drifting up on low volumes in a gentle ongoing short squeeze.
These types of markets typically run into a hard event and crumple. The timing may be problematic for the punters, and so the gentle short squeeze is fed daily.
The equity market commentary on the US financial news networks would make Baghdad Bob blush. I think the wiseguys are getting a little nervous because mom and pop seem to be sitting this one out.
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“Thus, it should be understood that when pro-US figures use the term, 'rules-based international order,' they are not referring to anything analogous to the rule of law. Quite the opposite, they are using Orwellian language to describe a system in which essentially no rules can be established and/or observed, given that the dominant state has the prerogative to violate and/or rewrite “rules” at its whim.” Aaron Good, American Exception