Posts Tagged ‘Federal Reserve’
Shares and Markets - June 13, 2013 21:19
Latest Hilsen-Rumor Put Cherry on Equity Rally
After last night’s thrashing on the TOCOM which saw the Nikkei 225 drop 843.94 points to close at 12,445.38 (or minus 6.4%) the US equity markets were looking at another potentially ugly day. But the Yen abruptly stopped appreciating and began turning back toward Â¥95, which it achieved just before the publication of the latest […]
Gold Breaks Through $1400 on Japan Volatility
The key to understanding how the Federal Reserve has been able to keep the price of gold under control for the past six months during all of this QE has been to look at the Japanese Yen. I might be smarter than the average bear but sometimes it takes a village to figure out why […]
Bonds Routed, Stocks Up, All is Normal?
As if there was ever any doubt that the central banks would not flood the world with unlimited amounts of paper as the Bank of Japan and the ECB both reaffirmed their loose monetary policies which sent equities around the world flying higher. It is too bad, of course, that organic growth only accounts for […]
Oil Ends Week Near Lows, S&P Levitates
Let it not be said that the Federal Reserve is not dogged in their pursuit of market conditions that it deems as necessary. Strategic commodities like oil and copper were pummeled this week and in previous weeks while the equity market on, frankly, horrific early earnings reports, continues to levitate. With today being options expiration […]
Gold Continues to be Pressured by Commodity Weakness
The cover story at this point for the latest operation in the Gold market is commodity weakness today on weak employment data. Since silver is now trading wholly along with the commodity complex when it is convenient then gold is dragged along with it. In other words folks, there is no rhyme or reason to […]
Dow Sets Record, Everything Else is Contained
When Alan Greenspan was brought out of his coffin — only at night by the way — a couple of weeks ago he made it clear that the Federal Reserve believes it can create economic prosperity through the manipulation of perception. And the greatest tool for attenuating the strength of the Fed’sreality distortion fieldis the […]
Gold Rallies to Highest Close in Two Weeks
The bulls are slowly grinding out another hard-fought uptrend as they engage in even more trench warfare and the Maginot line that has been drawn at $1685 per ounce this week. A beautiful quadruple-top was painted yesterday so the resistance will continue to be heavy. Bulls will have to be serious about wanting that level […]
Gold Spikes Down to $1650 on Multiple Signals
I’m watching the gold market right now and $1650 has been reached this morning. There is still nearly two full sessions until options expiration tomorrow so this current downdraft has a lot of potential for a major wipe out. If you are long gold with leverage you are an idiot. Jim Sinclair has been telling […]
Euro Looking to Break Out to $1.35
Last Friday’s close on the EURUSD cross was the highest weekly close since the middle of May. The euro pushed up against the US Dollar closing just over $1.316 eclipsing the close of $1.3128 to end the week of August 9th. This is a very significant occurrence given the Federal Reserve’s statement about QE this […]
Gold Holds onto $1700, Closes Flat Before FOMC
Tomorrow is the latest policy statement by the FOMC and as such always creates certain types of havoc in the markets. If Bernanke and the Fed announce the actual commencement of the QE program that they promised back in September, then this latest relentless attack on the price of Gold today can be seen as […]
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