Another day full of global macroeconomic disappointments is certain to send the S&P500 to all time-higherest records as 100,000 or so E-mini contracts exchange hands between central banks and Citadel's algos.

It started with the shocking NRF announcement that US holiday sales cratered 11% over the extended Thanksgiving weekend (which the NRF blamed on an "improving economy", to which even Goebbels bows down his head), but also China's latest manufacturing print miss expectations for the 2nd month in a row and drop to 8 month low, and moments thereafter, Eurozone releasing a downward revision to its October PMI data, with the all-important German PMI now openly in contraction, revised down from 50.0 to 49.5. And the punchline: the basket case that is Japan was finally downgraded by Moody's to A1 from Aa3 by Moody's which sent the USDJPY first to a new 7-year high at 119.14, only for USD/JPY to fall to new session low at 118.08 as everyone now realizes the Japanese endgame is just around the corner. Perhaps that is why after sliding 2% overnight, gold and silver have retraced all losses and are now higher from the Friday close, which however is more than can be said for copper down over 3% (thanks China) and of course crude, with both Brent and WTI declines continuing this morning as concerns of a sweeping global recession will sink future energy demand.