Meta is the world’s largest online social network, with nearly 4 billion family of apps monthly active users. Users engage with each other in different ways, exchanging messages and sharing news events, photos, and videos. The firm’s ecosystem consists mainly of the Facebook app, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, and many features surrounding these products. Users can access Facebook on mobile devices and desktops. Advertising revenue represents more than 90% of the firm’s total revenue, with more than 45% coming from the US and Canada and over 20% from Europe.

The United States economy is full of innovation. It has to be. Manufacturing industries that dominated the economy decades ago - textiles, televisions, even automobiles to a large degree - have moved overseas, where labor and materials costs are lower. Yet the U.S. economy, even during the pandemic and the current period of high inflation, has expanded to record levels. If U.S. corporations weren't innovating, creating new products (such as vaccines and AI) and services (such as Zoom calls) and moving into new markets, the domestic economy would not be growing, and capital would not be flooding into the country. The current high level of the U.S. dollar relative to currencies around the world attests to the confidence that global investors have in the durable and innovative U.S. economy.

Ever so quietly, commodity prices are starting to percolate and, impressively, this action is occurring with a rising U.S. Dollar Index (USD). What would be happening if the USD was in a downtrend or reversing lower? We might be back in the 1970s, which was not a pretty time for the stock market, inflation, and interest rates.

We are one session away from making it 17 out of 19 weeks in which stocks have moved to the upside. We've been throwing grenades at this move for a while, based on overbought and divergent momentum readings and excessive sentiment readings -- and it just does not matter. Yes, price is the final arbiter!