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Small Cap stocks are in the middle of their worst summer doldrums since 2011 – and in fact for many individual stocks, worst summer since the collapse in 2008/9. While talking heads proclaim these smaller (supposedly more domestically-oriented) stocks a must-own, they have underperformed significantly as the credit cycle turns (thanks to their higher sensitivity to funding costs, among other things).

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The Fed is watching developments in the China closely to gauge its potential effect on the U.S. economy, said Stanley Fischer, the No. 2 official at the U.S.

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Today’s most anticipated event at tthis year’s Jackson Hole event was the panel on “Global Inflation Dynamics”, not because there is any core inflation in the world (at least not in the way the CPI measures it), especially not now that China is finally in the deflation exporting business, but because the most important speaker at this year’s Jackson Hole, Fed vice chairman Stanley Fischer, alongside BOE’s Mark Carney, the ECB’s Constancio and the RBI’s Raguram Rajan, would comment.

Moments ago he just did, and courtesy of Market News, here are the highlights:

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Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith via PeakProsperity.com,

When stock markets are free-falling 10+% in a matter of days, it’s natural to seek some answers to the question “why now?”

Some are saying it was all the result of high-frequency trading (HFT), while others point to China’s modest devaluation of its currency the renminbi (a.k.a. yuan) as the trigger.

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It’s hard to go wrong if you keep adding to your long-term investments in the stock market — especially during downturns.