Dow closed up 37.65
Posted on 09/23/2011 2:10:22 PM PDT by blam
STOCKS MAKE HALFHEARTED REBOUND, GOLD TANKS: Here's What You Need To Know
Sam Ro
Sep. 23, 2011, 4:00 PM
After a turbulent week of trading, 'flat' was the new 'up' on a relatively quiet day for news.
But first, here's the scoreboard:
Dow: +37.6
NASDAQ: +6.8
S&P 500: +27.6
And now the top stories:
* Last night's Asian market selloff, led by the 5.7% plunge in the Kospi, set the stage for another global market sell off.
* US markets were indicated to open sharply lower as new worries of a Greek debt default freaked out the European stock markets again, which also caused US futures to tumble.
* The G20 pledged to help avert an all out European debt crisis in an unscheduled statement. But that went in one ear and out the other.
* The risk-off trade was kicked into high gear as the dollar gained and the 10-year Treasury note briefly saw a 1.6% handle.
* However, the early sell-off in US stocks quickly evaporated in early trading and stocks oscillated near 0 for most of the day. European markets closed with modest gains.
* Bank stocks were an area of strength today led by Morgan Stanley. Fox's Charlie Gasparino reported that Morgan CEO James Gorman "ordered his traders to buy the firm’s own debt in the market to underscore the firm’s financial strength." Morgan Stanley closed up by around 5%.
* Precious metals on the other hand got absolutely obliterated. Gold plunged by 6%. Silver got absolutely destroyed, falling 16%.
* Markets seemed to gain some confidence after Bloomberg reported that European authorities may be accelerating a permanent European bail out fund.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Dow closed up 37.65
Gold’s down by 99.60????
Yikes!
You know, the markets make so little sense, that there just HAS to be something going on that we just don’t see. I am not buying the electronic instantaneous response or robotic calls and puts altering the system. I wonder if there is a force driving the markets into roller coasters intentionally, not necessarily to political ends, but just plain disruption and mayhem. A world collapse of the monetary scheme would sure centralize banks and banking...we could all become instant serfs again, not so much politically as from a financial aspect...freedom itself..
“Rebound”?
After a two day 715 point drop...that doesn’t even qualify as a “dead cat bounce”.
Blood was in the silver market streets today so I waded in and added to my collection. Fire sale prices today baby!
I know there are a lot of “gold bugs” on FR but I can’t get beyond the fact that it really has little intrinsic value. Oh, I guess you could cast bullets out of it if push came to shove but lead is selling at some $0.88. In an armageddon type situation, large cashes of gold wouldn’t help an individual much other than get them killed by a group deluded into thinking gold actually has value. Plus, it doesn’t taste or digest well.
I’m not so sure of that. There are some analysts who think silver is headed down to the low 20’s, or even the teens.
I took the plunge into silver today. I hope it doesn’t go back to $17.
It might be a lot simpler than that. People were expecting the Fed to announce more monetary stimulus. QE3 if you will. More printing = inflation = rising pricing. The markets have been expecting the Fed to announce QE# for a while now, and partially why the markets tanked Thursday was because of the Fed announcement Wednesday. The more people are sure the Fed will not do a QE3 the less need for inflation hedge like Gold and Silver, and of course the less likely the markets are to be goosed by cheap money.
If there is little to no inflation, and little to no growth, then deflation may be realistic. In that case, sell gold, sell silver, sell stocks, hold cash. Cash is the hedge against deflation.
Now if you want to get a little more conspiratorial about it - then you can go one step further and say that the people who want QE3 (people who control great wealth), upon hearing it isn’t happening (yet) sell their positions in a massive and obviously coordinated fashion. Deflation is the one thing this fed chairman fears the most, so, falling markets, falling gold, falling silver, falling housing might force him to change his mind, or change the numbers he looks at to make his decision, giving him reason to look at printing QE3 again.
Nigel Farage: Financial “Cataclysm” To Come, Gold to Unimaginable Levels
"I think the worst in the financial system is yet to come, a possible cataclysm and if that happens the gold price could go (higher) to a number that we simply cannot, at this moment, even imagine. Gold is in an uptrend and professional traders should be buying the dips. "
WYNTK. ha ha
“I took the plunge into silver today. I hope it doesn’t go back to $17.”
If it does, buy some more to drive your average price down. I would be buying like a fiend at that price.
It’s been a useful asset everywhere for the last 3000 years. Show me one time or place having some gold wasn’t a help.
“It might be a lot simpler than that. People were expecting the Fed to announce more monetary stimulus.”
I meant to say the market in general for the last two years. There is rarely one cuse, I think, but there are too many things that don’t add up; bonds down, gold down, silver crushed. Low volume on good news...I can’t put my finger on it.
Gold is pretty -- we all like it, it doesn't get eaten in a famine or used up during an industrial boom. It's easy to test its purity, divide into small pieces and its quantity grows very slowly from year to year.
Most importantly, politicians cannot increase or decrease the quantity available on a whim.
All of those characteristics make it really good for money. That's its intrinsic value.
ZH posters attribute the recent sell-off in PMs to rumors of increased margin requirement, or, some smallish country unloading their vaults for cash.
AS for the last 2 years, not sure what you are referring to. All things are generally up since 2008 because we are printing and spending lots of money to get them up.
Silver under $20 bu the end of the year.
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