Posted on 12/26/2018 10:16:18 AM PST by Red Badger
Expiration date on options coming and they are about
to get their shorts burned.
If FED was ruining it, why are this years Holiday retail sales best in 6 years?
Stocks are still over-valued and need to come down another 30% based on averages of past 100 years.
Here's something interesting ...
I am active in several business networking groups including a regional Chamber of Commerce whose members include some of the largest national companies in banking, telecommunications and pharmaceuticals. Most of them are having trouble attracting and retaining members -- because their members are so busy they can't handle the demands on their schedules for networking events.
I have never seen anything like this in my professional career.
I see the strength of the U.S. dollar being a very important driver in the next couple of years. On a monthly basis, the U.S. Dollar Index (DXY) reached a low point of 80 in July 2011. Its highest point was 128 in March 1985. At the end of November 2018 it was at 103.
For those of you who can remember, I'd ask one question: Does it feel more like 1985 or 2011 right now?
Commie rats upset because they can’t trash Trump today..oh well they will think of something else to trash him about..picking his nose..drinking a soda, something
The Feds are trying to ruin it. It's obvious they said > 2% GDP is bad. WHAT MORE EVIDENCE DO YOU NEED?
It goes up, it goes down. Will the doomsday forecasts all be retracted? Will the papers look for traders with big smiles on their silly-a$$ faces?
Will articles appear that praise Trump?
Using the DOW as the sole indicator of the health of the economy is something a small mind might be tempted to do, but there is more to the economy than the ONE number that is broadcast thousands of times daily, the “DOW.”
Why is it, that when it goes down (during a Republican administration) it’s a “plunge,” “free fall,” “a crash.”
The Detroit rag news” says: “... Mr. President. But the stock market drop rests in your lap.” Will it say “The stock market rise rests in your lap”?
The Journal had an interesting article on this today. Apparently one of the things - and possibly the major thing - behind these wild swings is computerized trading, which is automatic and instantaneous. And then, in a sense, its reading its own data and acting on that basis so things go from bad to worse (or from high to too high, depending).
I think this is a serious problem, and I also think its vulnerable to hacking in a big way. Heck, one of the Vegas casinos got hacked by the Chinese through its huge fish tank, which had a security system to watch for changes in water temperature that unfortunately was not very secure itself. The Chinese are the biggest offenders in this, and you better believe that theyd like to destroy our economy.
What a steaming pile of Bushie-like politics. Holiday consumers spent $1 trillion dollars this season, with those numbers coming in today.
Interest rates should be in line with real inflation rate. Otherwise all it does is create bubbles in hard assets such as housing & stocks, and like every bubble in history, those bubbles always get popped hard and it never ends well. Recall the Housing bubble crashing?
AUTOMATED COMPUTER BUYING AND SELLING SHOULD BE BANNED..................
More bull crap preached to the public by MSM, the coupe administration and the rest of the democrats about the crash of the market and the fall of the Trump presidency. It keeps of getting worst... maybe out of desperation on their part.
Then there are still the anti Trumpers like Corker and Flake talking sour grapes... and the traitors being former and present FBI and an AG office staff attacking Trump.
First, DOW has no direct connection to CURRENT economic activity. DOW is looking ahead, not current situation.
With all this great CURRENT business activity you are seeing, and I believe you 100%, why did the DOW take a hit? Because it saw what is coming in 6-12 months forward as a POSSIBILITY. Such as no more tax cuts to stimulate with speaker Pelosi, world debt at record high which can bite you if economy slows down and world economy is indeed slowing down. That corporate nominal tax rate dropping from 35% to 21% with push from PDJT and significant cuts in regulations is why the DOW kept surging since election. Now there is not many regulations left to cut, and further tax cuts are impossible.
“The Stock Market has Predicted 9 of the Past 5 Recessions” - Paul Samuelson.
Bill Maher Hopes for Crashing Economy to Get Rid of Trump Bring on the Recession
The data are clear...sitting presidents overseeing economic malaise or recession don't get re-elected.
Now, I'm not going to go all tin foil hat and claim this is all being caused by Soros, the Illuminati, the Masons, the Rockefeller and Rothschild families, and the Trilateral Commission. Quite the contrary: The NYSE and NASDAQ's combined capitalization was $33 TRILLION in April 2018. Nobody in the list I compiled can cause $5 trillion in evaporation just because they want to...indeed, total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 155,000 in November 2018, and the unemployment rate remained unchanged at 3.7 percent. Job gains occurred in health care, in manufacturing, and in transportation and warehousing.
But I DO believe that expectations can beget changes in the real economy. This is why it is important that the Administration get ahead of the nattering nabobs of economic negativism in 2019. Otherwise people may get hurt and Bill Maher may get his wish.
The stock market is not the economy.
The economy is not the stock market.
You mean it’s not the end of the world, with Trump to blame, after all? No worries, though. Neil Cavuto and the rest of the LSM will find a way to negatively report it, and continue on with their desperate attempt to rid themselves of Trump.
They said on the news today that AMAZON did Very Well!~
Told my hubby to pat himself on the back! He ordered so many things from Amazon and other online retailers, like even Target and Academy, they don’t always have big things in the stores.... Like a big wood playhouse kit for our grands! We wouldn’t have any way to get it home! Shipped to our daughter in Weatherford, we are in suburb of Austin. Free Shipping
We didn't need to be afraid ?
We may have learned math, but we're still public school grads.
Prime is awesome. No shipping and you can get such a variety of things.
I forgot (terrible I know) to buy for my nieces’ kids in Virginia. I’m in Az. I bought a beautiful jewelry box my grand niece who is 11 and she promptly put away all her jewelry in it and a set of legos for the grand nephew.
The items were delivered in two days. I could never do that.
Amazon really is amazing.
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