Bottom of the Barrel?

(1) Are commodity prices overshooting the downside? (2) Crude oil price rebounds as rig count sinks. (3) For S&P 500 Energy & Materials the worst might be over. (4) Trucking index still barreling along in US. (5) Eurozone retail sales moving higher. (6) Germany benefitting already from weaker euro. (7) China’s imports and railway freight traffic are worrisome. (8) Will Fed tightening steepen or flatten the yield curve? (9) Larry Summers warns Fed that raising rates before inflation returns to 2% could be a catastrophe.