Another day, another miss on retail sales, another opening buying-panic pump and immediate dump, and another miraculous v-shaped recovery in stocks... We dusted off this clip as an analogy for thr grip on reality that every "investor" appears to be losing....
Energy leads the way today after lagging dramatically yesterday...
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But as Tech loses ground so Nasdaq ends red with Dow and S&P surging after the post-retail sales dip, opening rip...
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On the week, Small Caps remain very modestly green - everything else red...
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The intraday moves in US equity markets are not clear until you see the futures markets moves... come on!!!! Almost 700 Dow points swings...
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VIX traded in a very narrow range today...
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Big roundtrip in bonds today as TSY yields tumbled on retail sales and then pushed back higher all afternoon on very low volumes...
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The Dollar was monkey-hammered as EUR ramped 150 pips to oiver 1.07 after the retail sales miss... but as the afternoon wore on USD buyubg returned...
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Despite USD weakness, copper, gold, and silver contoinued to slide...
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As Crude just did its own crazy thing ahead of tonight's API inventrory data...
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Charts: Bloomberg
Bonus Chart: What goes down, must go up?
Spot the stick pic.twitter.com/7MxGGsAcSh [20]
— Not Jim Cramer (@Not_Jim_Cramer) April 14, 2015 [21]