Graham Summers’ Weekly Market Forecast (La La Land Edition)

Stocks have entered a kind of fantasy world, completely detached from any kind of economic, political, or financial reality. Indeed, last week the #1 driver of stock prices was unfounded rumors that were refuted within hours of their being published (I’ve circled the rumor-based rallies in the chart below).

Again, these were rumors… based on lies… that were refuted within hours of their being published… pushing the market into vertical rallies. Like I said, we’re in La La Land.

The reality of the financial system today is that we’re entering another global economic contraction. Earning have been abysmal in the US. Europe’s banking system is in a liquidity crisis on par with the post-Lehman Brothers collapse. China is entering a hard landing. And the US economy is in a second recession within a larger DE-pression.

The reasons stocks aren’t reacting to these realities (yet) are:

1)   Hedge funds and institutions are desperately trying to boost their returns before year-end (most have had HORRIBLE years)…

2)   Barring REAL selling pressure, most market action is dominated by high frequency trading programs (which don’t think or make qualitative judgments)… AND

3)   Traders have been conditioned to only care about one thing: more juice from the world’s central banks.

Indeed, if you want the real story for what’s happening to the world economy, take a look at the agricultural commodities. They (not stocks) were the first asset class to pick up on inflationary pressures from the Fed’s largesse in 2010. They were also the first asset class to pick up on the downturn in global economic activity in February 2011. And right now, they’re reflecting a reality that is far, FAR uglier than the one equities are discounting

This is an UGLY, DEFLATIONARY chart. It is a chart the predicts a SHARP economic contraction. Indeed, commodities as a whole don’t seem to be buying into the “risk on” atmosphere that dominated equities for most of 2011 (with the exception of late July-August).

The final, most glaring example of stocks being in La La Land comes from their inability to comprehend the current situation in Europe. Europe’s banking system is in a full-scale liquidity crisis that rivals the aftermath of Lehman Brothers’ bankruptcy. Indeed, multiple European nations are relying on the ECB to insure they don’t post FAILED bond auctions.

Against this backdrop, EU leaders just decided to impose stricter budgetary requirements from EU members. Only in La La Land could this be viewed as progress. The EU already had budgetary requirements… which the PIIGS countries all ignored. So how will these NEW budgetary requirements change anything? And who or what is going to enforce them?

And yet… stocks viewed this decision as a success. Again, we’re in La La Land.

Does this mean stocks can’t rally more from here? Not at all, in La La Land stocks can rally for no reason at all. But you should be aware that the credit, bond and commodities markets are all indicating we’re heading into a MASSIVE wave of deflation in the near future.

Remember, stocks were the last to “get it” in 2008. They’re the last to “get it” today too. And when they finally DO “get it,” we’re going to see some REAL fireworks.

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Comments

[darbsllim]

Thumbs up if you've gained 15% from Graham Summers' Private Wealth Advisory over the last couple of weeks when the markets all went down 15% =)

[EL INDIO]

If Gold goes below $1660 and stays there or keeps going lower then deflation will be confirmed.

For more than 3 years Gold has managed to stay above the 150 day MA, it looks like it’s going to violate it forcefully.

Unless the Fed or ECB start printing seriously, it seems we gonna have this deflation.

Those with cash will be very happy, there could be lots of cheap stuff to pick up.

[yabs]

oh contrare Pulau hopefully the fed WILL STAY THE fuck away

its deflation the we need to cleanse this mess not central banking printers

[Shizzmoney]

Already a bank run run in Lativa

http://t.co/sN2w3M8K

[PulauHantu29]

Deflationary Death Spiral in progress. Hoepfully, The Bernank does not allow it to progress to complete system Failure.