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Market Reaction To Bernanke Speech: Disappointment

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Alas, the market still refuses to acknowledge that the S&P will need to drop below 1000 (and whatever the appropriate level for the RUT is) for Bernanke to greenlight QE 3 which will in turn send everything to the moon (better have those collocated algos ready and steady). Judging by the post-speech reaction, markets may finally be getting it, just as Bernanke is also getting that he is dealing with a heroin addict who will not settle with methadone (aka "extraordinary" and "extended").

 

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Tue, 06/07/2011 - 22:47 | 1349516 TruthInSunshine
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It was direct threat aimed at Bernanke. Dimon wouldn't have done that publicly without some sort of real reason.

Those matters are typically discussed over lunch, face to face.

It could have been a big production for some other, less significant reason, too, though. Who knows...maybe Dimon and the Squid are setting up the table for some bad actors to fail soon, so they can collect some more cheap assets, or even free ones, compliments of the U.S. Taxpaying Sheeple.

Wed, 06/08/2011 - 03:30 | 1349825 ebworthen
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It was reported on the MSM outlets as "Head of one of the largest U.S. banks being tough with FED Chairman."

I just can't believe that.  To me it was grandstanding and political theater, a faux "tough question" as if there were some vestige of real banking going on in the nation; and that being practiced by "real businessman".

*cough*

If Dimon doesn't know he has Bernanke in his pocket and that they are playing pocket pool in each others' pants than there are darker clowns in this circus.

Tue, 06/07/2011 - 17:02 | 1348427 Van Halen
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Off with his head!

Tue, 06/07/2011 - 17:02 | 1348444 Seasmoke
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off with his beard !

Tue, 06/07/2011 - 17:02 | 1348428 Djirk
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who cares, I cashed out months ago, now all my retirement money is on the Miami Heat to take it is 6 games.

Tue, 06/07/2011 - 17:02 | 1348429 Yen Cross
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 So the JUNKSTERS ARE out. Game on! I won't junk you, piss ants!

Tue, 06/07/2011 - 17:01 | 1348438 YesWeKahn
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Anyone here really appreciate what Bernanke has done to our economy?

Tue, 06/07/2011 - 17:03 | 1348447 SheepDog-One
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Well he's turned a lot of fake fiatsco dollars into pure gold....I'll credit him that.

Tue, 06/07/2011 - 17:07 | 1348458 Dr. No
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Additionally he has made homes more affordable.  I would like to see additional declines however.

Tue, 06/07/2011 - 17:08 | 1348454 ebworthen
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The trashman doesn't deserve a catered lunch, a press conference, and fake questions from the biggest pig bankster in the room.

Tue, 06/07/2011 - 17:11 | 1348462 Spalding_Smailes
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I do

 

If he did not act the deflation from the shadow banking bust would have been devastating

Tue, 06/07/2011 - 18:02 | 1348678 The Profit Prophet
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Yeah...but your paid to say that so it doesn`t really count!

T.E.I.N. everyone!

Tue, 06/07/2011 - 19:28 | 1348908 ebworthen
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Oh yes, the deflation.  Not the deflation!  Oh no!  Anything but that!

There might actually have been a depression, with bankers jumping off of buildings or being hung by angry mobs. 

Thank God they raped the individual responsible household for the sake of the politicians and banks! 

We might have had to cancel the SupperBowl and face the death of the republic.

More bread and circuses Maximus! (and oral sex)

Tue, 06/07/2011 - 18:21 | 1348736 newbee
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I think I remember an interview with Greenspan being done where he defended his lowering of rates to zip, because if he didn't unemployment would climb to 10% ... oh wait a minute ...

Tue, 06/07/2011 - 18:48 | 1348809 Quantum Nucleonics
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What moron decided that 3:45 pm (15 minues before the market closed) would be a good time for a policy speech by the Fed chairman.  Pure genius.

Tue, 06/07/2011 - 19:23 | 1348913 ebworthen
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The same morons who sold at 3:30.

Tue, 06/07/2011 - 20:34 | 1349126 Frankie Carbone
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Just amazing how the markets gap up RIGHT after the markets close. Boy some after hours trader sure got excited, didn't he? 

In a related matter, I made $20.00 USD today (that's 1.49 CAD). I turned to a colleague at 9:45 and said "50 bucks says that at 10 am, the dow reverses and ticks up in a machine-like ashion until somewhere around noon or a little past. 

Sure enough, the mid-morning "pump" happened on schedule, like a swiss clock. 

The bastard quibbled over exact times (it, the morning "pump" peaked at 11 am), so we settled on 20 bucks. 

 

Tue, 06/07/2011 - 21:57 | 1349379 The Fonz
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There were only three outcomes really. 1. QE, 2. Nothing. 3. Tightening. 

Tightening was out I think, no intent there.

If QE was the intent then it WOULDN"T have been at 3:45 so it could impact the markets (I think)

Nothing was going to be negative, but if done earlier in the day would lead to a big downturn faster than they would have liked perhaps. So they do it at the end of the day, the intent is market down, and controllably.  So for now... market down at a controllable rate of choice is what a 3:45 pm Nothing speech's intent was. 

Come to think of it, when QE IS announced I think it'll be at the begining or middle of the day. Politics.

 

 

Tue, 06/07/2011 - 18:56 | 1348827 Feel the flow
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Maybe time to go long again on the ole hyperweb forex silver trading platform?  What do you think of this advice I came across tonight?  http://www.guidetosilver.com/silver-trading.html  Worth heeding?

Tue, 06/07/2011 - 19:32 | 1348943 Yen Cross
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 Amazing. Ya get junked for an (Opinion)

Tue, 06/07/2011 - 19:47 | 1348990 TheJudge2012
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Same claims of fragile economic recovery that's expected to show improvement despite horrendous data. Wondering if they are expecting a disaster they'll blame for upsetting their fragile recovery hence needing QE3, else how can they justify doing more of the same when it fails.

Tue, 06/07/2011 - 20:10 | 1349090 The Answer Is 42
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"Still, the Federal Reserve’s actions in recent years have doubtless helped stabilize the financial system, ease credit and financial conditions, guard against deflation, and promote economic recovery. All of this has been accomplished, I should note, at no net cost to the federal budget or to the U.S. taxpayer."

See? All that at no cost. Why has humanity been so stupid as to actually work when they could've achieved everything with the magic called Fed.

Someone saying this should be instantaneously stripped of any and all intellectual credibility. Instead, we have him as the single most powerful person in the world. We will have to pay for this, people. This is ultimately our stupidity.

Tue, 06/07/2011 - 20:35 | 1349135 jmw_hobbes
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Yeah.. until they reverese and take away all those part time jobs with those automated "chose your own meal" computers... coming to a city near you...

Tue, 06/07/2011 - 20:37 | 1349137 jmw_hobbes
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Yeah.. until they reverse and take away all those part time jobs with those automated "chose your own meal" computers... coming to a city near you...

Tue, 06/07/2011 - 21:32 | 1349282 Gimp
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This Fed talk is depressing..can someone help me tweet my weiner!

Tue, 06/07/2011 - 22:01 | 1349393 The Fonz
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Sure!  

 

8===D

Tue, 06/07/2011 - 22:19 | 1349443 ParaZite
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The Markets theme song before Bernanke takes the stage...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DayCrQWJXuI

Lie to me... go ahead and lie to me...

Wed, 06/08/2011 - 01:02 | 1349714 ebworthen
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And the classic from the Eurythmics:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhpu2N4rQZM

Tue, 06/07/2011 - 23:35 | 1349603 PulauHantu29
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Didn't The Bernank say,"the recession is over" back in the summer of 2009?

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