Huge congratulations to Canada for becoming the second country in the world to fully legalize marijuana!

This is a huge milestone for this fascinating industry and in my personal opinion is long overdue. I hope that in the next few years many more countries will open their respective markets to this exciting field.

Today’s Highlights

Traditional Markets

Volatility begets volatility. At least that’s the word on financial media lately. It’s been an entire week since the broad stock market sell-off and though we’ve seen a bright bounce from the bottom, things are far from normal.

The US indices have been the quickest to “recover” and as we can see, they’ve recouped almost half the losses from the top.

This is likely due to the monetary policy in the United States which is currently sucking up the wealth of the world. Higher interest rates are a big incentive for foreign investors to store their wealth in American assets.

As we can see, other markets aren’t nearly as far off the lows…

Bond Watch

As you’ll recall, the start of volatility this year came in February and it was largely attributed to rising bond yields. So we do need to keep a close eye on these.

In the USA, the 10-year yield is once again on the rise and threatening to break new highs. Yesterday, we saw another solid leg up…

The level to watch out for now is 3.25…

In Italy, where we are awaiting some potentially sour news from Brussels, the 10-year yield is also sitting at the highs and could very easily breakout from here.

When Bitcoin Breakout?

It’s only a matter of time now. Of course, the flatline pattern could easily remain for another few months and that wouldn’t be a bad thing, however, there are signs of excitement boiling underneath the cool price action exterior.