Five down days in a row (first time in 5 months) for the S&P 500 (cash) and it has broken its 50DMA for the first time since 12/20/11. Notably the equal-weight S&P 500 broke the 50DMA yesterday and is now down 4.4% (versus -3.5% for the cap-weighted S&P 500) from its highs on 4/2. At what point do levered liquidations (VIX nearing 20% at one-month highs) cause the S&P 500 index dog to wag its AAPL tail as opposed to the other way around as it remains the outperformer relative to European equity and US and Europe's credit markets.
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US equity indices remain outperformers but this seems so clearly driven by AAPL's impact that we fear for the dog to start wagging its tail soon...
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Charts: Bloomberg