Halloween is still more than a week away, but financial assets put their zombie costumes on early this year, as major equity averages and other asset classes meander around awkwardly and aimlessly.  The S&P 500 traded to an all-time high more than two-months ago in mid-August and then quickly went catatonic, trading in a range of less than three percentage points.  Eight years ago, in 2008, the S&P 500’s average daily move was 3% per day on its way to a peak of 4% that December.  These days we can’t even get 3% in two months.  Looking at the charts of the major US equity benchmarks, it is a similar picture.  The DJIA, Nasdaq, and Russell 2000 are all hanging around right near their August highs, pinned between their 50 and 200-day moving averages.

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