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Stocks Slide As Fed Warns "Not Prepared To Wait For Market"

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With the US equity market jerking around on every headline (having jumped on DOE inventories?!), reports from MNI that the FOMC majority is not prepared to wait indefinitely for market participants to be fully on board, appear to have taken the shine off the exuberance. It seems yesterday's warning from Jerome Powell that there will be 2 rate hikes this year did not stall the stock bubble enough and so more "officials" leaked more information today.

 

 

As MarketNews reports, Fed officials have let it be known they realize they can't avoid all volatility and are prepared to move when they believe they have met two main conditions for "liftoff."

The Deutsche Boerse publication notes that the Fed has done everything it can to facilitate communication with markets, "including FOMC statements, press conferences, quarterly economic forecasts, Congressional testimony and speeches by key policymakers" to convey how the Fed perceives progress toward fulfilling the two conditions.

However, MNI is told the FOMC majority is not prepared to wait indefinitely for market participants to be fully on board.

MNI had previously reported on May 14, that Fed officials are highly sensitive to financial markets but are determined not to be ruled by them. "As much as the Fed would like to be in sync with markets and avoid excessive volatility, there is a sense it cannot be cowed by the markets into indefinitely delaying liftoff."

Needless to say, for now the Fed has been all talk and no hike, and any claims it won't be "cowed" by markets are nothing more than a sad joke and proof of just how cornered the Fed is by the very asset bubble it itself has blown.

 

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Wed, 06/24/2015 - 11:22 | 6229649 Haus-Targaryen
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5 bps rate hike incoming. 

Wed, 06/24/2015 - 11:24 | 6229664 thamnosma
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Which will be held indefinitely before needing to be withdranwn at some point in the future. 

 

How long have they been jawboning about a rate hike?  A couple of years?  At some point they have to puke something up just to move on to the next scam.

Wed, 06/24/2015 - 11:43 | 6229722 Headbanger
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BLAMMMM!!

50 BPS HIKE NEXT WEEK!

Can't say they didn't warn ya.. 

The Feral Reserve has been trying to induce an orderly sell off 

BUT NOOOOOO...

Mother of All Margin Calls about to hit hard


Wed, 06/24/2015 - 11:44 | 6229755 KnuckleDragger-X
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The Deutsche Boerse publication notes that the Fed has done everything it can to facilitate communication with markets, "including FOMC statements, press conferences, quarterly economic forecasts, Congressional testimony and speeches by key policymakers" to convey how the Fed perceives progress toward fulfilling the two conditions.

 

The bullshit is running deep and they helped create most of the problem. They know they are running out of time and are trying to hide the murder weapon......

Wed, 06/24/2015 - 11:56 | 6229801 knukles
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These people are crazy.
If rates must be hiked, then do so.
Worrying about market reactions is simply, Insane   I'd love to see rates hiked and the perpetual news of the Non-Recovery continue.  Oh, would rates reverse back to their lows.

 "Momma, don't let yer retarded grow up to be central bankers.  Messing up everything money and such, killing economies, the world in a rut"

Wed, 06/24/2015 - 14:06 | 6230207 Vullsain
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Glory be,  you mean the Fed has indicated that it occasionally should do what is best for the economy and not what is best for the rich????                                      

 

Wed, 06/24/2015 - 11:39 | 6229729 Bobbo
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It's time to lower equity prices for another round of global leveraged buyouts.

Wed, 06/24/2015 - 11:35 | 6229717 BandGap
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July 1 they start tying student loans to the 10 year treasury rate. More fucking chaos.

Wed, 06/24/2015 - 11:40 | 6229736 thamnosma
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Not sure that matters all that much since much of that won't be paid back anyway.

Wed, 06/24/2015 - 11:22 | 6229654 BullyBearish
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Yeah...right

Wed, 06/24/2015 - 11:38 | 6229728 Hype Alert
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" It seems yesterday's warning from Jerome Powell that there will be 2 rate hikes this year did not stall the stock bubble enough and so more "officials" leaked more information today." 

 

Market hitting new highs on the QQQ.  Calling their bluff.

Wed, 06/24/2015 - 11:34 | 6229655 Ham-bone
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What a load of bullshit...if the Fed thinks after having created the massive imbalances it can start to rebalance now when the demographics and economic growth will be the worst...wow, they are truly ivory tower fools or intent on imploding the system?!?

The chart in the link shows the demographic winter we are enduring and why spring is still a long ways off...

http://econimica.blogspot.com/2015/06/0ne-simple-chart-explains-great.html

Wed, 06/24/2015 - 11:23 | 6229658 Soul Glow
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As the POMO desk rolls on!

Wed, 06/24/2015 - 11:24 | 6229662 FreeShitter
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BTFD....no rates. QE until WWIII.

Wed, 06/24/2015 - 11:30 | 6229667 JustObserving
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The Fed sure talks big about raising rates even as US GDP shrinks fast when you factor in real inflation.

If you adjusted US inflation by the average Chapwood Index (real inflation)  for the last 4 years for just the last decade, US GDP is about $6 trillion instead of the official $17 trillion or so.

Real GDP has been -6.2%, -6.5%, -6.5%, -4.1% from 2011 to 2014 per the Chapwood Index

Truth is treason in an empire of lies.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-05-29/inaccurate-statistics-and-threa...

Wed, 06/24/2015 - 11:26 | 6229668 jmcwala
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More jawboning bt the Fed. When will it end?

Wed, 06/24/2015 - 11:33 | 6229713 FreeShitter
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When someone big doesnt get paid.

Wed, 06/24/2015 - 11:40 | 6229737 Bobbo
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When WE control the owners.

Wed, 06/24/2015 - 11:55 | 6229797 cheech_wizard
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About the same time Greece exits the EU?

Wed, 06/24/2015 - 12:34 | 6229932 Winston Churchill
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When they run out of asses.

There seems no shortage of them though.

Wed, 06/24/2015 - 11:26 | 6229674 JohnGaltUk
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What will come first? A Grexit or an interest rate rise.

Worse question since Lehmans

Wed, 06/24/2015 - 11:27 | 6229678 wstrub
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Largest borrowers are governments.......good luck with that!

Wed, 06/24/2015 - 11:28 | 6229680 Kilgore Trout
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I thought they were "patient". Now not prepared to wait? Yeesh

Wed, 06/24/2015 - 11:41 | 6229740 Bobbo
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Got new orders from above.  Gotta start singing the new tune.

Wed, 06/24/2015 - 11:27 | 6229682 ghostzapper
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Did that little cuntrag Hilsy approve this message?

Wed, 06/24/2015 - 11:28 | 6229686 Dr. Engali
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Ouch, that 4 pts. off the S&P is scaring the fuck out of me.

Wed, 06/24/2015 - 11:42 | 6229743 B2u
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3 pts and I crapped in my pants....but BTFD...no risk...

Wed, 06/24/2015 - 11:29 | 6229696 BeaverCream
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Trial balloon to see what kind of damage they're looking at...?

Wed, 06/24/2015 - 11:46 | 6229698 Bobbo
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Read it thus:

 

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Officials have let it be known they realize they can't avoid all volatility and are prepared to move when they believe they have adequately falsified the two main conditions for "liftoff."

 

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As much as the Fed would like to be in conrol of markets and avoid excessive panic, there is a sense it cannot be cowed by economic reality into further delaying implementation of their owners' wishes.

 

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Wed, 06/24/2015 - 11:38 | 6229723 thamnosma
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I don't think a single "reporter" has used the question time to inquire as to the actual level of rate hikes allegedly being considered.  It's just an amorphous "rate  hike".  Or what the Fed considers to be a "target" area for eventual interest rates.  Is it 1, 2, 5, 10%?  Or 0.50 percent?

Wed, 06/24/2015 - 11:43 | 6229748 Bobbo
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I understand they are going to implement the standard consumer penalty rate. 

What is it today, 28% ?

Wed, 06/24/2015 - 11:46 | 6229761 thamnosma
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Good one.  Now THAT would be something to behold.

Wed, 06/24/2015 - 11:38 | 6229727 khakuda
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Markets own the Fed.  Who do they think they are kidding?  They are a one trick pony.  Stimulate and get the bond, stock and real estate markets to rise at rates faster than earnings and income growth until the jig is up.  This is Bubble, Act 3.

Wed, 06/24/2015 - 11:42 | 6229744 madbraz
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headline should read:  

 

"FED not prepared to ask NY FED's Dudley to cut reverse repos from $180 billion/day to zero permanently and consequently remove fake leverage in the system."

Wed, 06/24/2015 - 11:42 | 6229746 Yen Cross
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  Look at how abysmal the volume in the dow is.

Wed, 06/24/2015 - 11:44 | 6229752 Bobbo
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Hm.  Abyss is such a troubling word!

Wed, 06/24/2015 - 11:48 | 6229770 Gulfcoastcommentary
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A hike is coming.  I don't think it's cataclysmic. 

Wed, 06/24/2015 - 11:53 | 6229791 Consuelo
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By the time the Fed moves to raise rates at a volume or pace that resembles anything of significance or value, the major geopolitical 'move' by Russia & China will have already taken place.   And not necessarily a military move, but a reactionary move in response to an uncalled for military action/s by the U.S.

In simple terms, they are waiting for a reason that not only gives them the 'green light', but the moral high-ground in the process.    You don't kick your opponent in the teeth until he is flat on the ground.

 

 

Wed, 06/24/2015 - 12:05 | 6229823 Wilcox1
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Is the plunge protection team at lunch or something?

Wed, 06/24/2015 - 12:30 | 6229922 rajc
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wow big whoop -- don 30 pts.  ZH is too pessimistic 

Wed, 06/24/2015 - 12:53 | 6229991 buzzsaw99
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of course they will be cowed. the fed is all hat and no cattle.

Wed, 06/24/2015 - 13:40 | 6230123 gcjohns1971
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It occurs to me that the Fed is not tolerating the volatility so much as they are causing it with leaks.

If there was a good pretext to raise rates, it was before 1Q data was available.  Things have been lousy in the market since then.

Therefore the Fed is not data-driven.

What if, rather than raising rates as a face-saving-measure prior to continued QE, they are instead trying to pre-emptively justify more QE by CAUSING a more controllable down-turn??

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