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Stocks End Best Month Since Oct 2011 With A Whimper

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/27/2015 17:04 -0400

Just one thing... Spock's Dead, Stocks Red (and AIG's Benmosche died too)

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While February was the S&P's best month since October 2011 (amid collapsing macro data and earnings), the day and week was on the ugly side... so we thought this was more appropriate than "everything is awesome" for a change...

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Despite the best efforts to shrug off the dismal data and ramp the open, it appears The Fed's Stan Fischer and ECB's Constancio seemed to take the liquidty glow off the market...

*FISCHER: FED BALANCE SHEET TO EVENTUALLY SHRINK TO $1-$2 TLN (wait what!?)
*FISCHER SEES 'NO GOOD REASON' TO TELEGRAPH EVERY POLICY ACTION (so a June surprise is possible?)
*FISCHER SAYS JUNE, SEPT. GET MAIN WEIGHT OF PROBABILITY
*FISCHER SAYS ASSUMPTIONS ON RATE TIMING COULD CHANGE
*CONSTANCIO: ECB TO FIND OTHER STIMULUS IF BONDS IN SHORT SUPPLY (ECB QE might be smaller?)

Stocks closed a nasty shade of red today... Nasdaq's worst day since January

On the week, Dow, Trannies, and S&P 500 end red...

Quite amonth for the NASDAAPL..

But - all that matters is that this was the S&P's best month since October 2011...

AAPL did not help matters - aside from the epic farce meltup on news of the Chicago PMI crash... AAPL's worst week since 1/16...

Treasury yields dropped 9-12bps on the week (2Y -1bps only)...

The US Dollar surged this week to the highest since September 2003 - seemingly after wage inflation showed up in the CPI data... led by a plunge in EUR and Swissy

EURUSD ended the week below 1.1200 ahead of next week's QE start...

The 8th monthly rise in a row for USD Index...

Commodities were generally flat to very slightly higher today... with only oil down on the week...

But crude oil ramped into the close - in a perfect deja vu of last week...

Crude oil broke its 7-month losing streak - the same length as the 2008/9 drop...

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Stocks were February's leader with Bonds and Precious Metals worst...

Year-to-Date, Silver remains the leader with gold and bonds just outperforming stocks...

Year-to-Date, US stocks don't make the Top 10 with Russia and Saudi Arabia leading (in USD terms)...

Charts: Bloomberg

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Fri, 02/27/2015 - 17:07 | 5836703 NoIdea

I think my charts are broken. I have this red line on them today

Fri, 02/27/2015 - 17:10 | 5836721 Pool Shark

"He's dead, Jim."

Fri, 02/27/2015 - 17:51 | 5836931 walküre

It's month end? Darnit. I totally forgot to buy stocks again. Maybe next month.

Fri, 02/27/2015 - 17:16 | 5836759 HedgeAccordingly

just stay long VXX puts on every Vol expansion..

http://hedgeaccordingly.com/2015/02/dissecting-goldmans-99-percentile-va...

Fri, 02/27/2015 - 18:09 | 5837024 dimwitted economist

thank you president obama...

Fri, 02/27/2015 - 17:07 | 5836704 adr

All I have to say after the greatest show of bullshit in my life is:

Fuck this past month.

Fri, 02/27/2015 - 17:12 | 5836743 czarangelus

It's only getting worse from now on.

But if you're going through Hell, keep going.

Fri, 02/27/2015 - 17:17 | 5836766 Id fight Gandhi

There's always next month. Maybe.

Fri, 02/27/2015 - 17:10 | 5836722 Thirst Mutilator

Martin Armstrong had a better day on 2.27.07

Fri, 02/27/2015 - 17:11 | 5836732 davidalan1

R.I.P. Leonard.....

Fri, 02/27/2015 - 18:01 | 5836975 Disc Jockey

Who the fuck downvoted this? Come out here so I can fuck you up you little shit!

Tonight I raise my glass to one of the most decent men ever to appear on the screen.

Godspeed Spock...we'll miss you dearly.

Fri, 02/27/2015 - 19:04 | 5837361 Thirst Mutilator

A Klingon [but I'm not a Klingon & it wasn't MY downvote]

Fri, 02/27/2015 - 17:12 | 5836734 fed_depression

*CONSTANCIO: ECB TO FIND OTHER STIMULUS IF BONDS IN SHORT SUPPLY (ECB QE might be smaller?)

This is what I was talking about. If the banks front run the ECB they could demand let's say 10%+ premium. So the ECB just told them sell for small gains or we are going somewhere else to buy.

Fri, 02/27/2015 - 17:16 | 5836744 Yen Cross

Just a beginning?

     Dow 30    18,140.00    18,140.00    18,209.50    18,133.50    -74.42    -0.41%    21:04:55
     S&P 500    2,105.00    2,105.00    2,113.00    2,103.70    -5.74    -0.27%    21:02:37
     Nasdaq    4,963.53    4,963.53    4,989.25    4,960.88    -24.36    -0.49%    21:05:00
     Russell 2000    1,233.65    1,233.65    1,240.55    1,232.55    -5.46    -0.44%    21:00:56

Live long and prosper~ Spock.

Fri, 02/27/2015 - 17:23 | 5836808 disabledvet