[Electric Graffiti]

Blam....can you explain to me why the stock market shot up almost 200 points yesterday?

The propaganda claims it was job growth....oil went up yesterday too.

There has to be major manipulation going on in the market. It makes no sense at all.

[KSCITYBOY]

I looked at the market yesterday and said WTF. Then I looked at the currency to see if the dollar had lost ground and it had not. Oil was up to like 102+. The talking heads we saying how great the jobs numbers were but wall street doesn't typically buy into that BS. Something else was going on. We are two and 1/2 years into this collapse and official unemployment is still through the roof yesterdays numbers are really noting to write home about - Who knows - maybe people fleeing to equities to ride the market up with inflation.Until the piper has to be paid....

[updatedscreenname]

opec and china are dumping treasuries and buying stocks and commodities. They are like the drug dealers that have warehouses full of dollars and have rats eating at the pile.

For China and opec, the rat is inflation. In treasuries they are loosing money every minute.

[familyop]

When the Dow goes up, American manufacturing in east Asia is up. East Asian manufacturing needs oil. East Asian employees are manufacturing cars and will manufacture many more each year, as more of them can afford to buy cars.

[arrogantsob]

It probably had more to do with the Judge re-iteration that the Health care destruction law was unconstitutional that with any other known factor.

[MamaDearest]

There has to be major manipulation going on in the market. It makes no sense at all.

Bingo. The market going up when financial news is utterly deplorable smacks of manipulation. Rocket science unnecessary, something stinks.

Daily Job Cuts

Includes business closings and bankruptcies as well as layoffs/terminations.

[blam]

"There has to be major manipulation going on in the market. It makes no sense at all."

I'll go with manipulation.

Just know that these days 70% of all trades are made instantly by preprogrammed computers.

You, me and the individual investor are chumps for even being in that CASINO! (That; 's all it's become)

I read that the market went up yesterday in anticipation of excellent jobs numbers expected to be announced today. They weren't good.

[_Jim]

Blam....can you explain to me why the stock market shot up almost 200 points yesterday?

The propaganda claims it was job growth....oil went up yesterday too.

There has to be major manipulation going on in the market. It makes no sense at all.

What kind of volume (trading volume - number of shares traded)?

Thin volumes of late can yield some volatile price swings ...

HFT (High-Frequency Trading) by machines take any little opportunity to start trading shares back and forth ... almost anything can happen, usually with some news event serving as a trigger.