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'Twas The Hike Before Christmas
“Christmas at my house is always at least six or seven times more pleasant than anywhere else. We start drinking early. And while everyone else is seeing only one Santa Claus, we’ll be seeing six or seven."
– W.C. Fields.
‘Twas the hike before Christmas, and all over the shop
Short end traders were waiting for prices to drop.
Bloomberg and Reuters, the FT all there
To capture the moment – if Yellen would dare.
Stockbrokers slept fitfully, dreaming of when
Fed policy meant lower rates, thank you Ben;
The hedgies, meanwhile, partied on in their yachts,
With barely a thought of ascending Fed dots.
Commodities managers searched in despair
For solace, in cupboards, but cupboards were bare.
BRIC managers looked at each other in shock,
With a new acronym for EM markets – COCK.
The dollar was rallying, higher and higher –
For frontier debt markets, a funeral pyre.
There were sellers of iron ore, zinc, copper and gold;
What was mined or extracted got ruthlessly sold.
And CNBC then went live with its anchors
Though all in the market considered them disappointing,
The cameras all turned to report news from Janet,
The Fed chief who lived on a different planet.
“Information received since we met in October.”
But by now there was nobody left who was sober;
So when she announced her first quarter-point hike,
Since nobody heard her, all markets did spike.
The Nasdaq went higher, the S&P too;
The bond market loved it, and Treasuries flew.
The Far East went mental and over in China
The rally in mid-caps could not have been finer.
At which point a figure in red fled the room,
Concerned that he’d caused an untenable boom.
The Santa Claus Rally* was with us all right –
“Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night!”
*Ends December 24th.
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Perfect Headline !!
The Horror! The Horror!
Performance Year to Date:
DJIA: Down 3.9%
S&P 500: Down 2.6%
Russell 2000: Down 6.7%
“NOT OFF THE LOWS”
[That’s gonna leave a mark...]
They still have 2 weeks to make it positive on the year, never underestime the PPT.
Who says they want to make it positive?
I think they would like to...erection year and all
I think going into the voting booth next year they would rather be saying stocks are up 10 percent YTD. Easier to do if they start wtih 1900 going in...
twas the KIKE b4 Christmas...
BRICs, COCKs, whatever. They all just need to get laid.
Twas The Dyke Before Christmas...
Didn't the chap at Vatican say it's going to be a charade?
so wrong you are...
they will make as hard as possible for trump and his presidency
there will be no election this year
they know trump will win
so they hike those rates and celebrate
for tommorow all will be 'saved'
i prefer 'twas the kike before christmas
every time..
And when poor Kevin Henry tried for his 3:30 ramp he only had coal in his stocking.
Lucy yanked the football away,... again,... just like yesterday
The sugar plum fairies are mugging old ladies of their savings!
Grandma Yellen got run over by a reinbear
Walking home from Wall Street Christmas Eve
You can say "There's no such thing as rate hikes"
But as for me and Grandpa, we believe
Forget being run-over; Longs got raped by a Bear. Just like DiCaprio:
http://www.eonline.com/news/724787/leonardo-dicaprio-talks-absurd-bear-rape-rumors-eating-bison-liver-and-oscar-buzz
CNBC, fcking hilarious, priceless!
Catastrophe Night Before Christmas
Too bad the S&P didn't break 2,000.
Maybe Monday.
I'm gonna squeeze you shorts on Dec 31 to keep the indexes green for this year!! We are working on the headlines and talking points now, so get ready!!
Did you actually think we did anything other than that?
How else could we be so wrong for so long? The only data we look at is the closing prices of the markets. Everything else is just worthless, inconsequential noise to us.
If this makes you mad, you have two groups to blame: 1) our creditors who keep buying our worthless paper, and 2) your government "representatives" who don't give a rat's ass about you and your plight, and let's us do anything we damn well please!!
I have never seen a more disconnected group of people in my entire life. Why they're permitted to live is beyond me.
Live and pillage, you mean. One cannot exist without the other.
THEY KNOW NOTHING !!!! - Cramer The Elf.
I like "The unmensches who stole Christmas...." better
"Now Buffet! Now Cramer!
Now, Shkreli and Janet!
On, Gartman! On, Corzine!
On, Hillary and Wolf Blitzen!
To the top of the porch!
To the top of the wall!
Now dash away! Dash away!
Dash away all!"
i did a better one a few years back but I'm too lazy now just use Fed jews and their apologists,
Blitzer, Blinder, Yellen, Mishkin, Fischer, etc
So where are the pundits who claimed there would be a global derivatives meltdown on a .25% rate hike? They were practically claiming we were a c**t hair away from financial armageddon.
filthy jew just wants to destroy the only christian holyday in the year
Talk about a "hike" before Christmas: Just got my Obamacare renewal ID card today. Individual deductible was $6,600, now $6,850. The policy I was forced off of two years back was not "good enough" (deductible was $5,000). These guys suck. They lie. They purposely deceive. They cheat. They steal. Merry Christmas.
$6850 for out of pocket expences before insurance pays anything????
You better start saving boyoh and put that donut down.
(Fuckety Fuck Fuck Fucked you are)
Well, while we are at the whole caroling thing....
I'm dreaming of a Black Live Matter Christmas.
Just like the one Ferguson will know
Where the rooftops are missing and gangstas listen
To hear sirens in the snow
I'm dreaming of a Black Lives Matter Christmas
With every court summons I write
May your days be merry becasue cops won't fight
And may all your victims be real white.....
I would love to see a very Black Monday...
#DoomChubsMatter
With the headlines stating the middle class is now a minority, its time to raise interest rates....
Since there is no home to borrow equity out of no more, raising the interest on the credit cards they are now using to survive on, continues to drive the middle class into the lower class, just as Karl Marx taught....
When warned of letting lawyers run the country, we should have gave academics an honorable mention.....
here's her back up tune, you know it......
Yeah, it's pretty clear, I ain't no size two
But I can shake it, shake it, like I'm supposed to do
'Cause I got that broom broom that all the wickens chase
And all the right junk bonds in just the right place
Because you know I'm all about debase
'Bout debase, da currency
I'm all about debase
'Bout debase, da currency
I'm all about debase
'Bout debase, da currency
I'm all about debase
'Bout debase... debase...debase
Alasdair Macleod on SD Weekly Metals & Markets Discussing Fed Hike, Financial Market Instability & His Best Trade for 2016: Short the Dollar by Buying Silver
http://thenewsdoctors.com/?p=566082
One thing to remember as we approach Xmas night.
More debt to all, and to all a good night.
The rate adjustment that you have to have.
This is not about saving the economy, that boat is done.
This is about saving the incredibility of the Central Bank, nothing more, nothing less. They don't want to blamed for the biggest crash in history, but unless Putin bites into this WW3 propaganda scenerio, they will be taking the blame. So, we'll have to wait until the next economist cover to see what the Rothschilds/Zionists are going to be up to next year, because last years was a real zinger. How many things on that cover came true, and it's not a prediction if you can make it happen.