Archive - Nov 7, 2013

One momo company that will almost certainly miss out on all of today's Twitter/ECB induced BTFATH-euphoria, is Tesla which is down 3% premarket at last check for one simple reason: the one shown on the photo below. This is the third reported car fire in the past month. So much for that "best safety rating of any car ever tested" - perhaps it really is time to inquire just what the NHTSA kickbacks were in order to go with that "objective" determination?

Perhaps it is not surprising that with the absolute majority of economists and strategists, or 67 of 70, predicting no rate cut by the ECB, this is exactly what the ECB just did, when in a stunning move it cute rates for both the main refi rate and the marginal lending facility by 25 bps, to 0.25% and 0.75% respectively. And there is your reaction to Europe's encroaching deflation. The Euro will need a bigger chart to show just how far it tumbled as a result of the stunner...

Is someone a little bit nervous ahead of the year's most anticipated IPO?

• Twitter's IPO to Make Market Debut (WSJ); Twitter Raises $1.82 Billion, Pricier Value Than Facebook (BBG)
• Worried Senators Press Obama on Health Law (WSJ)
• Greenspan Says Yellen Was His Guide to Economics Research at Fed (BBG)
• European Central Bank seen holding rates despite inflation tumble (Reuters)
• Wall St. Bonuses Over All Are Predicted to Rise 5 to 10% (NYT)
• Cautious consumers seen curbing U.S. economic growth (Reuters)
• China Grants U.S. Investors Indirect Access to Its Stock Markets (WSJ)
• Higher Tax Rates Give Top U.S. Earners Year-End Headaches (BBG)
• Iran Loses Nuclear Leverage as World Ignores Export Drop (BBG)
• NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly in the running for JPMorgan job (Post)

Moments ago the Czech Republic officially entered the global currency wars with the first currency intervention in 11 Years

CZECH CENTRAL BANK APPROVES KORUNA INTERVENTION; CZECH CENTRAL BANK SAID TO BUY EUROS IN MARKET
KORUNA WEAKENS 3.2% VS EUR AS CENTRAL BANK OKS INTERVENTION

This has led to the biggest Koruna drop in 4 years. Whoever was long the EURCZK, take the rest of the day off:

When it comes to US equities today, the picture below summarizes it all... the only question is whether the NYSE breaks to celebrate the year's overhyped social media IPO.Aside from the non-event that is the going public of a company that will likely not generate profits for years, if ever, the overnight market has been quiet with all major stock indices in Asia trading modestly lower on the back of a modestly stronger dollar, although the main currency to watch will be the Euro (German Industrial production of -0.9% today was a miss of 0.0% expectations and down from 1.6% previously), when the ECB releases its monthly statement at 7:45 am Eastern when it is largely expected to do nothing but may hint at more easing in the future. On the US docket we have the weekly initial claims (expected at 335k) which now that they are again in a rising phase, have been the latest data item to be ignored in the Bizarro market, as well as the latest Q3 GDP estimate, pegged by consensus at 2.0%.