The Fed maintained the status quo in its decision last week, which means that it will continue to pump $25 billion per month through the trading accounts of the Primary Dealers via its MBS purchase program. That number could increase modestly later this summer as a result of the latest mortgage refi mini boom driven…
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Market Liquidity Report — Special Guest Post by Lee Adler
by Pretzel Logic • • 0 Comments
The following is an extended excerpt from my friend Lee Adler’s Wall Street Examiner Professional Edition. Since we all know that liquidity is key to the market, I thought this report might be of interest, especially since his conclusion&nbs…
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Market’s Liquidity Indicators Begin To Tilt Bearish – With Free Excerpt
by Lee Adler • • 0 Comments
The composite liquidity indicator downticked last week on small declines in most of its components. We know that the downtick in the Fed’s pumping to Primary Dealers is temporary, but the weakening in other indicators may not be. Over the course of this latest surge, most of the cash has been targeted at the Treasury…
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Monetary and Liquidity Flows Level Out Enough To Allow Minor Corrections
by Lee Adler • • 0 Comments
Liquidity indicators were mostly weaker last week. I have downgraded the intermediate trend on 2 of them from Bullish to Neutral. The majority are now rated neutral. This might mean that conditions are more conducive to a correction in both stocks and bonds, but I see no reason yet to expect an extended decline.
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What’s Priced Into the Market Uptrend?
by Charles Hugh Smith • • 0 Comments
Is the operative phrase here “priced to perfection”?
With everything from stocks and bonds to ‘roo bellies rising as one trade, it may be a good time to ask: what’s priced into the market’s uptrend? We say “bad news is priced in” when negativ…
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The Corzine Carol – Updated!
by Cody Penn Dent • • 0 Comments
So we have new facts that have come to light in the Jon Corzine / MF Global scandal. After a day of Senate “I don’t know / I didn’t intend” testimony (or should we call it “intendimony?”) we learn that an auditor for CME learned that Corzine knew of customer funds being used to collateralize…
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Corzine Testimony Christmas Carol
by Cody Penn Dent • • 0 Comments
Jon Corzine’s testimony could have been sung as a Christmas Carol: (Sung to “God rest ye merry gentlemen”) I guess you clever gentlemen Are wondering what I’ll say. Will I cite the 5th amendment Or did I come to play? Well I will tell you everything On this December day. You see, I don’t remember…
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Unreported Bedlam In Treasuries Signals Massive Panic
by Lee Adler • • 0 Comments
The following is an extended excerpt from the Wall Street Examiner Professional Edition weekly Treasury update. The subscriber link to the full report is at the end of this summary. Last week was a light auction week with a net of just $3 billion in new supply settling on Thursday. That took the pressure off…
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Europanic Trumps Debtmageddon
by Lee Adler • • 0 Comments
One of the macro liquidity indicators that I track in the Wall Street Examiner Professional Edition Fed Report shows the apparent reason why US financial markets, both stocks and bonds, had retained their buoyancy until the last couple of days. I won’t bore you with the particulars of the proprietary formula used to calculate this.…
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From: Money Morning: Three Ways to Slash Your Risk Despite the Negative Investing Outlook
by Bears Chat at The Wall Street Examiner • • 0 Comments
With everything from the Greek debt crisis to worries about China’s growth roiling the markets these days, the investing outlook seems to get shakier by the minute. And that means the same old tricks won’t work any longer.
It’s not going to be e…
