Market Plunges As European Crisis Is Back
JPY saw a massive correction today - gaining 3% against the USD - its biggest single-day gain since May 2010 - dragging all the carry traders with it. S&P 500 futures volume exploded to its highest since the rally began in November as it broke its uptrend and slumped 40 points from its intraday highs. VIX's term structure collapsed to its flattest in 18 months as spot surged above 19% (no - everyone wasn't hedged). The Dow, S&P, and Nasdaq are all red for the month and even the Trannies are almost unch. Treasuries soared with 10Y ending -10bps (after being +4bps at its worst of the day). Gold and Silver surged (with the latter testing near $1600 again) as WTI dropped 1%. Homebuilders (not helped by lumber's price collapse) dropped 3.5% but every sector was ugly today and closed at its lows.
S&P futures lost their gains for Feb, broke their uptrend dramatically on heavy volume and large trade size, and are heading towards QE3 levels...
S&P 500 futures crashed 40 points from intraday highs
The month of Feb just went red...
VIX term structure collapsed and VIX rose to its highs of the year...
Stocks finally caught down to Bonds' 'implied' weakness into the closing minutes as Gold held up near its highs of the day...
FX markets were a mess... EUR dumped over 1%...
as JPY exploded around 3% higher on the day - implying a serious session for Japan overnight...
Gold and Silver gained almost 1% on the day - even as the USD rose - but WTI dropped back towards $92...
Cross asset class correlation surged as the slide accelerated late on and stocks caught down to Capital Context's CONTEXT model...
And finally, the exuberance of the equity market is catching back down to the less sanguine credit market just as we suggested...
Bonus Chart: While we have been told to expect a 13,000 Nikkei 225 level by the end of March - and we are sure Abe and his pals are watching FX markets closely - today's 3% crash higher in the JPY against the USD will have a few hearts racing as Japan opens this evening. Based on the last few weeks of highly correlated action between the Nikkei and the JPY, the current levels would tend to imply a drop of over 600 points on the main Japanese equity index or around 6%. Cue, BoJ nomination withdrawals in 3...2...1...
Japan closed happily higher last night, safe in the knowledge that all is well and fixed in Europe...
How things change...
Charts: Bloomberg
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It's the weather.
Fret not. Bernanke's 'Virtuous Circle' macroeconomic toolbox will levitate every "market" and "asset class" indefinitely and make every "investor" a winner (no more business cycles, falling markets, asset classes or losing sides of trades in Bernanktopia).
Step right up.
LMAO ~ Gotta LOVE those stock footage pics of traders with their heads buried in their hands...
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ht Tyler(s) ~ nice add, always good for a few laughs
Made my day also. hahahahahaha mother fuckers!!!
Comedy Central couldn't touch ZH with a 100 foot pole...
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Umm ~ perhaps RHETORICAL, but notice that all the American Flag patches have gold fringe around them... Just sayiin'
better a bunga bunga than a banker, says the people of Italy.
"Gold and Silver surged (with the latter testing near $1600 again)"
The latter? I WISH!
Just double down tomorrow boys, you'll be fine, just fine.
@Francis - Nope it couldn't touch it. We must of got our red arrow by one of those cocksticks in the pictures. hahahahahaha bitch!!! Not our fault you buying at retail prices.
Dem flags are to remind dem of the "freedom" they enjoy.
must pay tribute to the crown.
good eye
jurisdiction....
mmmmm.......hmmmm...
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A gold fringed flag represents no nation and no constitution. 99% don't know that. Including the Congress.
http://www.apfn.org/APFN/flag.htm
Fits perfectly with the current coup.
Could it be the Full Moon?
They should just take some happy pills and stay positive. Remember a pessimist is never right!
Shit it's hot in there!
JPY on FIYA!!!
This is a great sarcastic post, but there is definitely truth to it. The governments of the world and markets are addicted to central banker largesse. Steep drops in the market will be met with more printing and deficit spending. It has "worked" for 4 years. Every 5 to 10% dip is met with new avalanches of liquidity. Yes, they can print (and borrow) infinite amounts of digital fiat and the nominal price of stocks will continue to soar (long term). I am hanging on to my short position until we get into that 5% to 10% drop range, then I am going cash out and go long with leverage on the S&P in a strenuous attempt to stay ahead of inflation with my "play" money.
The faces say it all, where screwed.
A crop failure in the USSR caused this!
Damn right euro crisis is back !
Euro break-up process has started ...
Thank God !
Bernank will save us
He is saving us, by killing us.
Preserve the forest by cutting it down and replanting.
Bernanke has to start printing $150 billion a month to levitate this market and at least $50 billion a month for Europe. All those idiots worried about the printing ending soon will change their tune tomorrow.
QE forever. Gold to $2000 and silver to $40 easily this year.
Gas to $8/gal.
Seems like the 2007 records are gonna be with us for a while longer
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Back?!?!?! I never realized it was gone.
Italy is just an isolated case. Believe us, Greece, Portugal and Spain are totally different.
Lest we forget:Italy,France,Cyprus,Malta are so totally different as well.
Ireland is SUPER different...
Reuters --ROME | Mon Feb 25, 2013 3:54pm EST
“A bitter campaign, fought largely over economic issues, made some investors fear a return of the kind of debt crisis that took the euro zone close to disaster and brought the technocrat Monti to office, replacing Berlusconi, in 2011.
“The projected results showed more than half of Italians had voted for the anti-euro platforms of Berlusconi and Grillo.”
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/25/us-italy-vote-idUSBRE91M0EB20130225
Guess who's back, guess who's back! Rooooar! Was here all the time by the way!
ABOUT FUCKIN TIME! FUCK YOU BERNANKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey Cali..
thats trademarked...check please...
I think it was those topless Italian female protesters that cause the slide today.
I thought they were Ukranian? Or have they branched out?
Those ladies were some fighters. I LOLed hard at the one upside down in the police vehicle halfway out of the door. Had she been successful, she'd landed right on her head.
Too bad they aren't this engaged about something real, rather than fake elections for a fake government.
But hey, topless protesters keep the facade all shiny too!
ahem...in the interest of staying fully informed, please direct me to these...ahem...historical documents.
The Ukranian ones at Davos were hotter...
Timber!
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http://finviz.com/futures_charts.ashx?t=LB
Someone set the curtains on fire.
Even Karl Denninger set his tickercon to 1.
We will have to see how the Asian markets take this. IMHO, If they go down more than 2% average, run.
Even Karl Denninger? That dude has been on defcon infinity for like fifteen years.
Maybe I havent been around long enough. I've never seen him put it on 1.
Maybe gold leads.
so fucking happy we are red for the month. i love this bloodbath, it was so fun watching all the red across my level 2 trading platform throughout the day, specifically the final hour.
asia is going to get slaughtered tonight, and if this bouscolini guy ends up winning, watch out, europe will implode.
bernanke speaks tomm and wed, as we speak, benny boy is prob changing up his speech and reassuing his bank buddies that he will continue qe for the immediate future.
also, fuck goldman sachs, so satisfying seeing that stock the entire day drop over 4 percent.
"Have you tried 22 tonight?"
~ Rick Blaine
VXX to the moon!
Back up the truck, at least for today. Fuck you B.B!