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More Echoes From 2011 As European Stocks Signal Trouble Ahead
As the mainstream media gets over-run with 'buy-the-dippers' and 'healthy retracement' protagonists with the S&P down a monstrous 1.5% from its highs, it is perhaps worth noting (h/t Doug Kass) that Europe's broad equity market index is now down over 5% from it's peak two weeks ago (as is the UK's FTSE index). In yet another echo of last year's liquidity-fueled spurt-and-slump, European equity markets (along with US and European credit markets as we have already noted) are sending a warning signal that trouble may lay immediately ahead for US equities. The Euro-Stoxx index has just crossed below its 100DMA for the first time in over 4 months having dropped over 4% on the last two days. Add to this size of margin debt (as we noted earlier) and the ultra-low levels of cash at equity mutual funds and what is now the largest drop since the rally began (an incredible fact that we have hardly dropped more than 2% peak to trough in five months in Cembalest's sweet serenity) may well mean more pain is to come.
2011's US vs Europe Equity performance...
and the current 2012 rally's performance...
Charts: Bloomberg
(h/t Doug Kass)
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It's good to see that on massive down days the gold miners are in fact heavily leveraged to the price of gold. Not so much on the up days though....
Valuations of some miners are just totally laughable.
Relax, everyone. It's just decoupling. The USA is entering the new Glorious Future. Everyone has forgotten about Europe.
don't worry, Jim Sinclair's on his 17th call in 2 years the Miners are a "coiled spring ready to explode"
wake me up when they do wud ya
Let me guess what Hilsenrath is going to write about tomorrow.
lol
It's 1:30. Crimex is closed. Time to ramp stocks back up to give the illusion that the USA economy decoupled from the world.
Good call. Probably close even now.
"there will be a bounce tomorrow":()))
Yes, bounce tomorrow because Friday is NFP payback day.
:()))) yepyyyy!
It's all been said before ... what's the point of QE when all the £££$$$ taken out of the market when government announces QE ending? They should be forced to invest for a minimum time period of 2 years ... OR SOMETHING.
"Invest"....? I'm not quite sure where to go with that one...
try shorting Greece ...you can't fail with that one
so this must be bullish news then: Enterprise has joined the 5th fleet
http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=66274
Almost time for the Gulf of Persia Incident...
Spain is toast. LTRO isn't working. The PIGS are dying. And France can't sustain their bloated economy.
http://confoundedinterest.wordpress.com/2012/04/04/the-pain-in-spain-lies-mainly-in-the-bailout-redux-of-charge-of-the-light-brigade/
Yes. "And equity has caused it." How this impacts US equities in a. Egative way I simply don't understand. And just as obviously Doug got his ass handed to him as we went all in on a sell off to start the year. Of there are equities worth shorting here...for professionals like Mr. Kass of course..."but this ain't Lehman and the glory days." will the bulk of Europe's banking system be taken out by a total collapse of Spain? Possibly. But how will the RISK be transferred sheeple? If you answer "to Iran"...well...sure. "If you're the United States." this thing stinks to high heaven, it feels like a controlled collapse "over there" and that means interest rates stay at or near zero just like the Fed has said they will and "bulls and bears make money." simply put "the numbers don't lie." the market has rallied into March on the "news" that the EU is about to implode.
Yawn, Bullish. Investors just haven't read the memo yet, "This time is different"...
How many days before we get a suggestion of QE3 again? I say Friday.
The SF Fed prez already said today more QE is possible.
They can't let one down day occur before freaking out.
Greece for sale!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Greece-for-sale/170817574881
Bennies only goal at this point in time is get Barry re-elected. He doesnt have much ammo left but luckily the average Americans memory is only about 30 days........ The presses start in August after an interim 20% market swoon. Picks for the S&P on Election day and the price at the pump?
Mine S&P 1350 Gas $3.25
the average Americans memory is only about 30 days
By "days" do you really mean:
a) minutes
b) lattes
c) episodes
My thinking to a tee, gator. Too early to gun it, will have petered out when Obama/Chairsatan could best capitalize on it. My guess for QE fanfare would be shortly after Labor Day, when tv viewing surges and the debates are underway.
90% of investment fools are in Gold I wait 4 the day to see them enjoying this secure asset.
Interesting head and shoulders pattern on the 3 month EUR/USD playing out...
2:15ish "buy express(o), anyone?!?! :())
I get the feeling Ben is more concerned with who is going to buy all those T-bills. A good 20% correction will bring in the buyers and hold the line on inflation. Looks like the S&P is going to have to take one for the team...
I think that T-bills will be fine as long as the EU is tip-toeing along the edge. My question is when their bonds go will they take down the entire bond complex with them including UST's?
Any Elliott Wave people out there? FTSE wave 3 down looks to be under way.
Wasn't the avg. DOW volume around 200mil' shares just six months ago... today the avg. shows 140mil' and currently the volume is only 70mil' for the day!
Well you can't short without fear of being "rampled" (yes I intentionally left off the "t"). And if you go long you can almost hear them snickering at squid HQ.
just picked up 100oz. Ag at a steal of a paper swap today :D
Goldman is like, "You so clever"
http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/410874/you-so-clever
As a fund manager it is quite simple. What do you prefer: European stocks in EUR area or US stocks in USD.
And here we go. Spoos soon to cross 1,400. What a broken piece of shit market this is.
The first question is at which moment in time is the inflection point building toward, the NFP number on Friday of the beginning of earnings season in 10 or so days ?
The second is whether the downward action today is the institutionals' flipping point from long bias to short bias?
I guess the whole globalism thing isn't going quite to plan
If any of the politicians actually gave a shit about their people, they would be talking about protectionism for jobs. They ain't, so I guess they don't.
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