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Well we ended a down week on a down note for all of the major stock market indexes.

In fact, only the Russell 2000 managed to finish the week in the green, though it did

finish the day in the red.

In fact, gold was down this week.

Gold stocks were down this week.

Even Bitcoin was down on the week.

Although I'm not quite sure if the Bitcoin week is over, it's not really a Monday through

Friday type of deal because it trades 24.7.

Although the grayscale Bitcoin trust is definitely closed for the week and it finished in the

red.

So pretty much everything went down.

And I think what some of the markets were reacting to was the move up in interest rates,

which kind of turned a bit in the last couple of days of the week as markets started to

roll over in response to rising rates.

Of course, rising rates are being driven by rising inflation fears.

Certainly you can see that in the commodity prices, which were hitting five year highs

across the board.

In fact, we did get some pretty bad numbers coming out on import and export prices.

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