Good morning. Happy Monday. Hope you had a nice weekend.
The Asian/Pacific markets closed mostly down. Hong Kong and Indonesia dropped more than 1%. Europe is currently suffering stiff, across-the-board losses. Greece is down 5%, Austria 3.2%, Belgium, France, Germany, Amsterdam, Stockholm and London more than 2%, and Norway, Switzerland and the Czech Republic more than 1%. Futures here in the States point towards a big gap down for the cash market.
The dollar is up slightly. Oil and copoer are each down about 2%. Gold and silver are down more than 1%.
Greece remains the headline story. Will they accept another round of bailout money? Will they leave the Euro? Parliament is split, and that means uncertainty.
Italy and Spain’s borrowing costs continue to rise.
China cut its reserve requirement by 50 basis points over the weekend. This enables banks to lend out a little more than before. It’ll help boost their economy but offers a warning their slowdown may be steeper than first thought…after all, why would they have to resort to such measures.
Indian inflation unexpectedly increased to 7.23% – this could limit their ability to cut rates.
Supposedly 3 execs at JP Morgan will be stepping down after costing the company $2 billion. Bloomberg says the entire London staff (where the loss took place) could be dismissed. Personally I think the CEO should be stepping down too.
Yahoo’s CEO is losing his job. Lieing about whether he earned computer science degree 30 years ago is the reason.
Otherwise I don’t have anything to add to my comments I made over the weekend in my weekly report. As I stated, the bulls don’t have much wiggle room here. Heading into last week they had a little cushion before hitting support. Now they don’t. The S&P will open today near the key 1340 level, and many breadth indicators are pointing down but are not at washout levels. The bulls were able to push prices up intraday a couple times last week, but the overall path of least resistance never changed from being down. Don’t fight it. More after the open.
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piss on e slipped and said we’ve put in a bottom here, then spent 5 min trying to get out of it
in other words cnbc knows damn well whats going on. the fact they don’t say so proves they’re just a bunch of used car or insurance sellsmen
They’re ventriloquists
WIKI RIP:Originally, ventriloquism was a religious practice. The name comes from the Latin for to speak from the stomach, i.e. venter (belly) and loqui (speak).[1] The Greeks called this gastromancy (Greek: εγγαστριμυθία). The noises produced by the stomach were thought to be the voices of the unliving, who took up residence in the stomach of the ventriloquist. The ventriloquist would then interpret the sounds, as they were thought to be able to speak to the dead, as well as foretell the future. One of the earliest recorded group of prophets to utilise this technique was the Pythia, the priestess at the temple of Apollo in Delphi, who acted as the conduit for the Delphic Oracle.
u are very knowledgeable ,RichE
Yes there are spirits that reside in the stomach
i speak to mine every day
they are bears
You’re scaring me Aus.
LOL
ACI marching back and forth pretty well sold and bought it several times this morning.
good 3 & 4% moves.
AA pays a 3% div. for holders at the close today. should do a gradual climb.
AMAT & BRCD
AMAT releases earnings report thur. that will be interesting
corr. I meant to say AA pays .03 three cent div.
now for you e wavers. I may see a blah of blah of blah. I’m waiting to see if it goes down further to 1305 then it may go down further or come back up, but if it goes up to 1360, it may go higher or come back down
waves 2 and 4 are very upredicable and should only be traded by daytraders like urself ,russ
as a impusive person ,i prefer the impulsive bear
can u arrange a break up of the euro for next week for me please
yes usd needs to come down and my aa up
the reality is 1% down…prop comes in game over end of story
slo stoch on the vxo is at 80. time to see if the chicken shit variety of short will squeal if squeezed.
the fed has already shown us they will let the market come back in the afternoon. shouldn’t be a problem
faber will be on jepardey tomorrow
see your tick taz? squeal you little bitches lol
i need everybodies help
i have to go down to sydney on business this week
and whilst i will have my laptop with me i wont trade with out my full indicators in front of me
next monday i want to be able to short some nice bull
can anyone lend greece/spain some money
or take some nice puts out to force the market makers to push the market up for opts ex
good trading everyone
@AussieJS
We have 3 options, I hope one or more hit this week.
~ Europe (Germany) says they are altrusitic and love man kind and tell the EU they will suckle the PIGS forever. If you don’t know what PIGS is look it up.
~ The US Government gives cash to GS or MS (aka the plunge protection team) to prop the market back up.
~ Uncle Ben fires up the printing press and hands the cash to BAC and WF and tells them to buy.
We’re in a bad state JPM is off duty this week. I hate GS but I need them now. If Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers were around we could count on them but GS made sure they went down (short sold them, and bought insurance on them which AIG had to pay (and We paid)).
bangin em ta buy em
they are banging them into the close with massive neg tick extremes at minus 1500
may be a exhaustion
How come oil is going down?
oil is down because usd is up because euro is down. also fed raised margin on commodities to stop inflation and also get gasoline down to help the economy
Thanks.
The price of gas goes down and so does the market. That ought to make the people happy.
its a war isnt it. investor class that owns exxon vs the working class that has to drive to work. time for a REVOLUTION!!!
my inner bear is tired. too much beef jerky