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Dow Fails To Hold 2014 Gains As Treasury Yields Hit 7-Month Highs
Biotechs ended positive but for the 10th day in a row saw the early pump, dumped (as did a number of the momo names). But the big news is the Dow getting back into green for 2014...and then failing to hold it! Trannies and the S&P both hit new record highs. Treasury yields continue to press higher with 5Y now at 7-month highs (testing 1.80%) as 30Y yields are up 11bps on the week. The USD rallied modestly all day (ahead of tomorrow's hope-strewn ECB meeting) but ended unchanged on the week but commodities were mixed with general flatness interrupted by significant spikes in gold and silver around 8amET. Copper faded during the US day session. VIX was slammed under 13 into the close but faded back higher into the close.
It seems odd that Yellen's speech as seen as so amazingly dovosh and yet Bond yields have done nothing but soar since then..?
But it seems it was enough to get "growth" stocks back up to "Value" stocks year-to-date...
For a moment there the crescendo of self-congratulations on CNBC when the Dow managed to get green for 2014 was deafeneing as they cpuld not understand how it was possible it took over 3 months... BUT - it failed to hold...
And the last few days impressive smash higher have almost got builders and discretionary into the green..
AUDJPY was in charge this afternoon...
Nasdaq lagged on the day but the whole jump appears to have been engneered by a massive BTFD program off the 100DMA...just too easy eh?
As Biotechs pumped and dumped once again...
5Y yields at 7 month highs...
but 30Y has been the underperformer this week..
Gold an silver had a decent spike early on held most of the gains. Copper fell all day after that and oil ended flat on the day....
Charts: Bloomberg
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We are all just "dumb Tourists" according to Michael Lewis.. we should know better
video http://Hedge.ly/1h3W6kd
This is what angers me the most. The total disdain that bankers have for the muppets. As though we are a separate species. The solution will give me as much joy as the the problem gave me grief:
When the system is permitted to implode upon itself, the masses will descend into chaos. I for one see the "Local Warlord" style of rule to be in effect early on. I will make an empty JP Morgan branch my headquarters and decorate it with the heads of said bankers on landscaping timbers from the surrounding properties.
To ensure that I am kept in a fresh supply of bankster skulls, i'll put out a bounty.
In 90% Silver.
America.
Question -- what would happen if we just said ... "no more HFT". Would the market just tank? Can these parasites be unwound?
No, monetary policy is the real issue HFT just exacerbates it.
BTFD
Sell the fucking top
The S&P makes a new all time high, and the headline reads: Dow fails to hold gains. Strange perceptive bias here at ZH.
One sign of the top is a divergent market. Naz has been dragging.
El Guapo.
The Stock Market isn't going to crash until the U.S. government defaults.
The U.S. government and the Fed are buying stocks to artificially inflate prices and keep the whole thing from crashing.
Insiders already know this. Check out the interview on CNBC.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
And the US govt will never ever come out and admit 'default' so now what?
Yup. That's what I see as the problem.
The Fed's been having to work a lot harder at it the past few months then. Dow still not positive for the year after an entire quarter? Could that be saying something? Law of diminishing returns? I do think a lot of the smart money in it's typical fashion is aready looking out to the future as the market always does anticipating less intervention six months to a year down the road. You know, the intervention that's been driving the market for five years now. The pull back doesn't start when QE end you know. It's much before then. This first quarter has felt like a real struggle to push the market higher. Another sign? Who knows, but I think the Fed is starting to see bubbles, even they will never acknowedge it in public for fear of spooking the market. They would probably be happy to maintain the market where it is. But, that doesn't produce any income for the momentum traders. So they would have to find another game. Of course, things could also be on hold for the jobs report, at which point we could take off in either direction.
Not in the green? It must be time to announce the next round of sanctions on Russia:
*The United States has officially removed all stroganoff recipies from the White House Pinterest account. - Source: U.S. Undersecretary of Whimpering (via kashyyykian interpreter)
Don't worry, it took SPX several attempts to close at ATH, Dow will blow through there too in another day or two. Speaking of SPX how about a nice round 1900 print by EOW? Awesome!
maybe it's just that guys blow better than girls?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsf3SqIv0Ns
Or maybe it's just that your mind tricked your body into killing it's self.
Gross and his 5y load up gettin smoked.
if you look at it from "their" pov it always makes sense
The VIX is the mechanism of evil-
Fuck you, fake ass market manipulating pump monkeys.
I wonder how many cheeseburgers Paul Krugman ate today.
3 month copper chart looks like Warren Buffett pre-fluff
Before the government personally bailed his arse out?
NASA suspends all cooperation with Russia: http://rt.com/news/nasa-suspends-relations-roscosmos-961/
Since Obama killed NASA it doesn't matter anymore.
Guess US astronauts won't be hitching rides on Russian rockets into space.
Obama can have US astronauts assigned to inner-city youth camps making paper airplanes instead.
The Manchurian candidate Obama could not create a bigger mess and I'm led to believe this was his plan all along. Everything. I mean everything this man has his hands on is failing.
everyone should just be laughing at this point.
i left my house for a bit towards the end of the day, and anyone who watched the market today saw how abysmal the volume was and how tight a range the indexes, specfically the dow traded in for most of the day.
however, once they mentioned that we needed 44 pts on the dow for an all time high, when i left my house it was up 22, and sure enough i come home now and i see the dow closed at 53 pts up, despite not trading higher than 25 pts up the entire day before that.
no rigging here.
...and ohhh what heights we'll hit, on with the show this is it!!! Buggs Bunny
Consolidation on Monday's close showed up and that's exactly what we got.
http://bullandbearmash.com/chart/dow-jones-hourly-moves-forecast-consoli...
No question, these markets are beyond detached, but the NDX and the RUT are failing /diverging - yet another sign of topping.
No volume again in SPY. Should be much better volume for ATH, no?