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As we noted, it is nearly impossible for the US economy to growth without participation from ordinary citizens.&nbsp; It\u2019s relatively simple: when people have jobs, they can spend money.&nbsp; An unemployment rate of 3.5% means that the overwhelming majority of people who want jobs have one.&nbsp; A persistently low unemployment rate combined with wage growth (+0.4% in July) mean that people are not necessarily ready to cut back their purchases.&nbsp; We have been <a href=\"\/campus\/podcasts\/ibkr-podcasts\/might-hotter-weather-bring-hotter-inflation\/\">concerned that higher utility bills<\/a> for a large percentage of Americans would impede their ability to spend money at stores, but today\u2019s numbers show those worries to be premature at best, or unfounded at worst.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today\u2019s declines are another affirmation that US traders are first and foremost liquidity junkies.&nbsp; Solid retail sales, predicated on a solid employment, give the Federal Reserve little reason to consider rate cuts in the near-term.&nbsp; Instead, reports like today\u2019s give more ammunition to central bankers who already seem inclined \u2013 at least rhetorically \u2013 to keep interest rates at current levels and to keep the concept of further rate hikes on the table.&nbsp; Expectations for a hike at the November FOMC meeting have been creeping up to around 40%, and today\u2019s numbers do little to change that probability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Economic data in the UK added to the concerns that a key central bank would remain hawkish.&nbsp; Average weekly hourly earnings rose by 8.2% in June, well above an already robust 7.4% expectation.&nbsp; Revisions were also higher.&nbsp; Although the UK\u2019s unemployment rate rose to 4.2% from an expected 4.0% (which was also last month\u2019s number), these numbers should do nothing to push the Bank of England (BOE) into a more accommodative stance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another liquidity culprit is the Peoples Bank of China (PBOC).&nbsp; We noted yesterday that US traders appeared to be looking at the economic woes in China less as a source of risk than as a potential spur for stimulus.&nbsp; Guess what: the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/08\/15\/china-central-bank-cuts-rates-for-second-time-to-support-economy.html\">PBOC unexpectedly cut rates<\/a> by 15 basis points this morning, reducing the rate on its one-year medium lending facility (MLF) from 2.65% to 2.5%.&nbsp; That affected about $55 billion worth of loans.&nbsp; Yet that was not enough to excite those who had hoped for something even more aggressive.&nbsp; The PBOC tends to move incrementally and deliberately, which is at odds with traders who want their liquidity to come aggressively and quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HD has flipped between gains and losses this morning and is roughly unchanged as I write this.&nbsp; As with many other stocks this earnings season, their EPS handily beat expectations ($4.65 vs. $4.45) but other measures were more sobering.&nbsp; Sales, gross margins, and net income all declined versus last year\u2019s results.&nbsp; As we have noted previously, <a href=\"\/campus\/traders-insight\/securities\/stocks\/its-better-when-growth-stocks-um-grow\/\">it\u2019s better when growth stocks actually grow<\/a>.&nbsp; 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