Unifying Threads

Monday's narrative was just recycled, boilerplate copy: Solid earnings and decent data helped "offset" Chinese regulatory concerns and Delta variant jitters. On another day, China's regulatory blitz and some particularly ominous virus headline would "outweigh" the same corporate profit reports and economic figures. Financial journalism, apparently, is just an exercise in identifying a handful of relevant storylines and suggesting the good "offset" the bad when the screens are green. And the op