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ISM Misses Big
Somehow or another, our earlier joke that the ISM should beat the highest Wall Street estimate quickly became the whisper number, which was to be expected in the aftermath of yesterday's comparable Chicago PMI action. Which is why when the final ISM came at a whopping miss of 52.5, on consensus of 54.5, and down from 54.1, the market was less than happy. It gets worse: while the bulk of major ISM index components dropped in February, with PMI, New Orders, Production, Employment and Deliveries all down (Inventories unch), it was the scariest component that posted a major jump as Prices soared +6 to 61.5, the highest since June. And with Exports and Imports both improving, this proves that already in February rising gasoline prices started impairing US manufacturing. But don't tell that to the cheerleaders: because who was in the top spot of Wall Street "forecasters" if not Joe LaVorgna with his estimate of 56.0 for the ISM. Regardless, expect market sentiment to immediately shift to one that despite what Bernanke said less than 24 hours ago, this miss is an immediate green light for QE3 and the market should close at or near 14,000. Unless, of course, the vacuum tubes realize the minor detail that when David Tepper went "Balls to the Wall" and both bad news and good news meant stock upside, WTI was $85. It is $108 and rising now.
ISM breakdown:
As usual, the heatmap following dunce brigade:
And the survey respondents:
- "Business is holding steady. Concern over commodity prices ongoing." (Chemical Products)
- "Still somewhat cautious about recovery. Expecting a good year, but not seeing orders yet." (Machinery)
- "Demand remains consistent to strong on all levels." (Paper Products)
- "Demand from auto makers is getting stronger." (Fabricated Metal Products)
- "Manufacturing is busy. Spending money on new equipment to accommodate customer demands. Material prices are staying in check." (Food, Beverage & Tobacco Products)
- "There seems to be a much more positive outlook for the economy. Customers are ordering material for stock rather than just working hand-to-mouth." (Fabricated Metal Products)
- "Global GDP softening and beginning to impact the demand chain." (Computer & Electronic Products)
- "Production is busy — several new large projects." (Primary Metals)
- "Customers [are] lowering inventory levels, anticipating price decrease due to third-party published reports on materials." (Plastics & Metal Products)
- "We are optimistic about the U.S. market this year, a little hesitant about what may happen in Europe and unsure about China." (Transportation Equipment)
- "Shipments are increasing over last year. Waiting to see if the trend continues." (Wood Products)
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How in the world is the /ES still green. My god I would throw myself out of the window if it was higher then 20 feet.
jISM bitchez....
Joe Lavorgna, what a arrogant jerk... Him and CNBC crony crew of lackys. I quit watching CNBC over a year ago, got tired of the day lies. This just adds to the daily "untruths" he puts out to make his stocks rise. You all know the gig, they get on TV to boost their stocks up and pad their pockets.
Absolutely. I really wish I wasn't basically "required" to watch him and the rest of those clowns.
Crap is playing all dang day on the tv at work. I should quit haha.
Not surprising.
Market is a proxy for monetary expansion. Only.
I wouldn't say "only."
What I would say is that the monetary factor is now so large that it simply overwhelms any other factors. But it is possible for prices to rise as a function of an expanding Production Possibilities Frontier (PPF) in a healthy, sound money economy.
Given that we have niether a healthy economy or sound money, however...and then you're then dead on.
Cheers!
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I see the DJIA took a "massive" hit of about 30 points on this worse than expected news.
And now that this is fully priced in, we can go on to rally another hundred points or so.
The government can just manufacture some more phoney statistics, that should be good for another 1000 points.
FICTION BITCHEZ!!
And look at that DOW hang right at the psychologically important 13,000 mark.
Hang on Sloopy, Sloopy hang on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG2qVcff04g
We were so fucking young...
it's a shame it's wasted on the youth
Pathological more like...
*Dow 13.000 hat on*
*Dow 13.000 hat off*
*Dow 13.000 hat on*
*Dow 13.000 hat off*
Obamanomics on fire, boy! Wheee!
Rapidly moving from sublime to absurd.
It hit absurd levels for me months ago, maybe years. Hell, I'm still slack-jawed that Corzine is a free man. Not much can surprise me after that.
That and the fact that this market continous to climb with all this fraud being exposed on a daily basis. All that money raked in on CDS's just to find out they are worthless. You would think there would be a buyers strike
If you just found out something you own is worthless, wouldn't having twice as many mean you have twice the amount of worthless...........wait a minute.
What's wrong with this picture? :)
Stop worrying CD - we will make it up on volume!
But but but
*FORD SAYS GAS PRICES RISE ON ECONOMIC GROWTH :F US
Aahahahaa, priceless!
Rising energy prices are bullish because energy prices should rise in the face of economic growth so rising energy prices are bullish...
Rising energy prices are also bullish because there might be a dip in energy prices along the way up and that dip would be bullish since relatively lower energy prices give consumers more disposable income, so the market is pricing in current bullishness and future bullishness and every stop in between...
Everything is bullish and the market will go up until it won't... and more lemmings who were late to the party get stomped into the ground... along with the middle class who don't own stocks and all those folks living on fixed income...
100% FUBAR.
Good news are good, bad news are also good. Welcome to the new america.
Actually, good news is good and bad news is better. This is Oceania, and 2+2=5.
I will be collecting you shortly. Please do not attempt to leave the building.
The ISM number prompted an instant 0,25% drop in the Stockholm OMX30 index, somewhat spoiling my party today.
Gone long? You should have...
this market is bullet proof...it will never tank...jeeeezzzzzz.!!!!!
There is no way in hell this market is going down. They will have this thing pumped up to 14000 by election time.
They have to keep it up and then some....the nations pensions rely on it......
but oblahblah's base is the snap card crowd. 5 dollar gas and his ass finished.
Nope Obama will just annouce STAP (Supplemental Transportation Assistance Program). Government gas cards for the welfare class. RE-ELECTION GUARANTEED!!!!
But wait, the Bureau of Economic Analysis just told me Personal Income went up this year?
http://t.co/iz9spDRw
Oh wait, that income I got went right to taxes, health insurance, and to pay down my debt.
At least I got this stinkin' T-Shirt!
At least I got this Kool Halloween mask!
This is bullish right?
Absolutely.
$2T QE3 on deck.
It's raining money.....Hallelujah.
Yep, lol, Credit Suisse has coordinated QE between Fed, ECB, BoE, BoJ, and SNB on deck: http://www.dailycollateral.com/2012/03/01/credit-suisse-are-big-fans-wha...
This first quote (from that article)...
...is exactly the kind of thing that could put Germany in the mood to leave the EZ.
Thanks for the link.
The real question is, how will this affect the Top 12 Girls' chances of winning American Idol?
I'm for the dude from Ellsworth...
I think I'll go have a cheese curd.
Is this why silver just popped from $34.80 to $35.56 in a nanosecond? AG in the basement, AGQ in the IRA...bitchez.
dow will be 20,000 maybe 50,000 due to inflaton , it will start to be meaningless
Dow will equal infinity (as will all "assets") when USD = 1/infinity. Now we just need Graham Summers to tell us that will happen next week, again.
Give her time, boys. She'll be very red by EOD. Just sucking in some more folks to get their heads ripped off.
Only in this BS market can negative growth be called expansion. So is this index wrong, or were the regional surveys wrong?
I'll answer the question myself, THEY ARE ALL WRONG.
The ISM likes to cherry pick the best comments from the survey and apply those across the board. You could have a small manufacturer that does a couple million a year get a big order for one month and then go cold. During that month they look great and will say orders went up big, next month they are back down. You can bet that company's comment won't make it in the survey again.
I had a meeting with a manufacturer yesterday. He said his business took a nosedive in february. The only manufactuers doing well are those making pipes and rigs for Natgas drilling. Those guys are printing money, but it is a very small market overall. I'm sure the ISM knows that, but weighting those guys in the survey gives you the massive beats.
Do you guys even read this stuff before spouting off? The survey respondents are more bullish than bearish. Maybe, just maybe, there is some sort of weak recovery taking place. Bigger question is; once interest rates rise, which they will if this is a true recovery, will that choke off any economic expansion. I think it will. And the high oil price is also a nail in the coffin.
And the survey respondents:
WOW CHERRY PICKED COMMENTS FROM A BOARD WHSE JOB IT IS TO FIGURE OUT WAYS TO PUMP THE MARKET.
Or I bet you think the NAR has no reason to lie.
I can assure you, on the ground working in product development and maufacturing, and selling to retail. Things are not good at all. There is enough inventory being held by suppliers to last 5-6 months. Retail buyers aren't buying and stuff isn't selling.
Exports are up because many vendors are resorting to dumping millions of dollars worth of goods on international discount wholesalers for pennies on the dollar. There are a lot of Russian companies who will buy $20 million worth of full price inventory for $5 million and will sell the stuff off in Africa or the middle east.
NAR data, is not accurate and not to be taking seriously. I'm not saying the boards comments are not cherry picked, no doubt they are. But I see a lot more retail activity in the last few months, many more trucks on the road. Not saying all is good, and without any doubt eventually we will have this ugly day leading back to reality. Can't have 16.2 trillion in debt, 1.6 trillion deficit, no savings, and 500 billion trade gap and still maintain growth without more debt. More debt will ultimately casue global backlash against USD, much more than what you see today.
Hopium smoking jack asses. ISM shits on them and they thank god for the warmth...perfect.
Honey WTI don't care! Honey WTI does what it wants! Watch as Honey WTI eats this economy.
ISM Prices....UP
ISM PMI and Employment ... DOWN
Got it yet?
Construction spending -0.1%
No money? No credit? Come on down! I'll do whatever it takes to put you in a brand new car, today!
Fucking hell? Again with the QE3 shit?
You won't get an announcement of this.
The Godfather 3 economy: Just when I thought I was out... they pull me back in.
Personal Income Remains Anemic, Spending Flat, ISM Declines - Wait for Higher Gas Price Rises to Kick In!
http://confoundedinterest.wordpress.com/2012/03/01/personal-income-remai...
Skittle-shitting Unicorn Invent-FUCKING-tory build is OVER!
Manufacturers and importers have been building inventory since last spring, started to stall out close to christmas, now in tail spin.
Enjoy eating that inventory, dopes.
I thought everything was fine...just fine.....
ZH addicts:
The market is not permitted to decline on any date the Chairman testifies before the 535 corrupt representatives of Wall Street and the US banking kleptocracy.
Come come, everybody.
One of the Tyler's assured me yesterday that the "market" would throw a tantrum without any pronouncement of further QE from our Central Bank.
So, really, as the Dow is not yet 14,000 today, you should look at today's "market" action as the beginning stages of said tantrum.
Never you mind that the ECB LTRO2 was brought to you by - well, you. And me. And your friends and family. Via the US Federal Reserve, that is.
As I type this, I am watching our local news. As it goes to commercial, a full-screen shot of the DJIA is being shown, with the number in the green and the average above 13,000. That's all you need to know, apparently.
that looks like a 5-sigma downside PMI reading and another joeyLaVie 8-sigma prat-fall on the sell-sideComedyHour!
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not bad enough for qe3.
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