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Frontrunning: October 2
- Everyone buying HFT platforms: chip sales rise 5% in August (WSJ)
- Geithner says "Strong dollar is very important" to US (Bloomberg) too bad he is lying
- IMF chief renews call for currency reform (FT)
- Glorious is fifth flop in Hong Kong IPO "Massacre" (Bloomberg)
- Banks with 20% unpaid loans at 18 year high amid recovery doubt (Bloomberg)
- Wall Street wizardry reworks mortgages (WSJ, h/t Geoffrey)
- For sale, cheap: "Old GM" peddles a bankrupt empire's remains (WSJ)
- Fund managers bracing for a sell off (Business Week)
- Cuomo got campaign cash from pension-probe figure, returned it (Bloomberg)
- Investors in treasuries, dollars defy common sense (Bloomberg)
- Simon Johnson: Seduced by a model (NYT, h/t Paul)
- It was Ken Lewis who tried to bully Uncle Sam (Fox Business)
- Krugman: Mission not accomplished (NYT), um, Paul, didn't you state the recession was over?
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"Everyone buying HFT platforms: chip sales rise 5% in August (WSJ)"
LOL. I love how you Tylers don't take yourselves too seriously. Makes you that much harder to pick apart by the media somehow.
You must be having an effect. In addition to the media attention to your little 'ol site, there certainly seems to be more demand for answers and prosecutions. The BAC/SEC issue, audit the fed, the Lehman twist just uncovered. People are starting to fight back in their various corners. Directly or indirectly, I'm sure you're helping.
From the Bloomberg article on banks with 20% delinquent loans:
"The bank with the highest level of non-current loans, 49 percent, is Community Bank of Lemont in Lemont, Illinois, a town of about 13,000 people 30 miles southwest of Chicago. "
49%? Can't imagine why they would be having problems, majority of their loans are still good.
lol
Even if it were true that there is the vaunted "$3.5 Trillion on the sidelines" I bet those balances are overly concentrated in the accounts of high net worth individuals who do not feel compelled to be in the market to survive. Generally, retirement accounts of working stiffs are fully invested already in stocks and bonds. As for taxable money, is it really coming back to the madness
when credit is being chopped by banks (probably up to $3 trillion by now) and U6 in the 20s.
GS bought the recovery number. My bet is they sell the news stocks, gold, oil.
Is Bill Gross right again? You've got to be early to beat with that much investable money.
The best line I have heard thusfar is from John Hussman "I'm extremely concerned we've put a Band-Aid over an infection," and that is exactly what we have done... we have hidden the problem with a band-aid... but when the drainage and odor starts seeping out from underneath that band-aid watch-out... systemic infection here we come.
LOL
I can't wait until the system starts amputating parts of it's own body in a desperate attempt to live another day.
lol... great extension of my thoughts... I have a few ideas of what should be amputated first... I'll give you a hint "squidectomy" :-)
Thank God then, that there is no such thing as "odor-vision," especially when watching CNBS.
lmao... maybe we could create some 'scratch and sniff' stickers...
Think its the fifth time we have stuck a band-aid on there and the fifth one is basically holding all four of the previous ones by a needle thread...of course the infection is still spreading but you cant see it spread because each subsequent band-aid is much larger in size than the last one.
I think this may be the most interesting day this year, watching the powers that be defend the markets ( or not ). Pull up a chair, get your popcorn, and enjoy the show.
Oh come on now... the Federal Reserve trading desk is working overtime today... but they will have to really push it into high gear now because factory orders unexpectedly fell 0.8% in August... no coffee breaks today :-)
Don't forget folks, it's that favorite time of the week.
Bank failure Friday!
Too Small To Fail regional CRE-ladden banks are about to turn green on this morning's good news.
Thank
God
It's
Failure-Free FDIC Friday
What is today's line on numbers and the over/under on totals?
Since the world now knows they're broke and no new money coming in for 3 months, I suspect they'll keep bank failures at zero for a week or two to keep up the appearances (read illusion) they aren't desperate.
October, horrible news heading into the weekend, markets overbought ( hugely ). Damn, honey, I think we rented this movie before.
Sucks getting old.
I Know What You Did Last Quarter
Honey I Shrunk the Dollar
It's so transparent. Need a last minute stock market ramp to counter the terrible BLS employment numbers? Dump the dollar to jack the market.
"More power Scotty. I need more power."
"Captain, I'm giving you everything she's got. I can't hold her together much longer."
"Scotty, if we don't go faster, there'll be nothing left to hold together."
"Aye aye, Captain, I'll do my best."
Sourced quotations? Damn near every single original Star Trek episode. :>)
Geithner is lying..of course. Just look how the dollar was fast out of the gates and got clubbed like a baby seal. AND I love how marketwatch writes a story on gold moving back up and the dollar sagging BEFORE it actaully happened!
Yup, baby seal is the right word. Then promptly skinned alive and left for dead.
Bye bye dollar - the politically most expedient way to create wealth with the least obvious consequences suffered by the brainwashed masses (only 10% or less have passports) is to keep devaluing the dollar.
Joe Six Pack and company will look at what little is left in 401k's and nominally it will be higher.
Thank goodness they don't understand the difference between nominal and real RETURNS.
If they did, the US would make Bosnia seem like a church picnic.
Cheers,
Pigpen
It would be strongly appropriate if an undersecretary slipped up behind Timmy and tacked "Kick Me, I'm Lying" on the back of his suit jacket.
It would make anything Timmy says that much more humorous-- and provide the government an "out" for future lawsuits.
Someone is holding the markets up at the expense of the dollar...looks like no matter what, the dollar gets killed....good eco data, dollar whacked...bad eco data, dollar smoked.
Any idea why NGAS is getting killed today & UNG is up?
UNG doesn't track very well. It also has very limited shares-they are not allowed to float anymore. So there is a premium on UNG ETF shares. The USG wants to limit ETFs in commodities. ETFS like USO cause huge disruptions in the market because of the rolling contracts
Many thanks!
UNG is lifting the suspension of creating new shares.
I feel sorry for Americans, may your experience be a lesson for us all. Now go hang 'em.
Why do any and all Treas Sec ever bother saying that a strong dollar is in the U.S.'s best interest. I don't understand why then even waste their breath with the statement. Simply amazing
The psychology of habitual lying is very interesting. In a nut shell, even thou everyone knows you've been lying all along, you must continue to lie in order to prove your sincerity and truthfulness. Or at least trustworthiness
Yup, I know. I just described insanity.
At some point this buy stocks on dollar weakness to trade is going to collapse. There is little logic to it.
Just like Wednesday...
About 50% of earnings come from overseas, and the bulk those come from Europe. If they push on the euro then that will eventually weaken the economies there. So that isn't good. Further, the 50% coming domestically will be subjected to a higher crude prices ect, which is a direct tax on consumer spending. Manufacturers will face higher cost without being able to pass prices on. How is any of this bullish for stocks? Not too mention the fact that once people see the strong euro is hurting the economies there, what will be the market reaction? Will they be buyers of the euro or sellers I wonder!
"How is any of this bullish for stocks?" It's not, relativly speaking. Just make sure you take off the rose glasses and divide the equity index by the price of gold, or 1/USD, whichever floats your reality trip.
I guess. I'm just not sure how devaluing your currency works, when you have an economy that is 70% consumer spending, and that consumer is highly dependant on the car and oil. I hazard a guess that wasn't the case in the 30's.
Almost 1 for 1 SPX and Gold now!
Just buy REIT's, their screaming.
Few! We are positive, again. That was a close one. Thanks, Ben.
All these layoffs leave a glut of PC's and laptops at corporate IT division. The demand for semis is all consumers as more chips go into more products.
Like how OIL is now back at the lows of the day but the equity markets hanging tough. Speculators just making it tough for anybody to truly invest nowadays...OIL market is like the poker table, GOLD market is like russian roulette, and the STOCK MARKET is like the slots where the sheeple play and hope to strike it rich.
All right, everyone back on the Zions Bank train, again! Nobody better prepared to ride out a storm than Mormon and Texan bankers on the Fed's tit.
Six months of Church mandated Nitro-Food packs? Check.
Oil, gas, and wind turbines? Check.
Most independent Federal Reserve Bank in the U.S? Check.
ZION target $22.00? Check.
Think of it as an ETF for the Flyover States, with a not-so-well hedged California/Nevada kicker.
Where is the FDIC????? 28 banks with 20%+ defaulting loans and they haven't been closed?
Bloomberg -- U.S. SEC Likely to Act on Dark Pools, Nasdaq CEO Greifeld Says
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a3lhBsxz8E_w
Are these really IPO's or are they stock dumps. There's NO way so many IPO's would get pummelled the day after they are offered. There has to be something else going on. Central Banks covering huge amounts of the IPO's and then dumping the next day?