Monday, August 25, 2014

MONDAY 8/25/14; ECB President Draghi Creates European Stock Rally; New Home Sales; SPX PRINTS 2000 FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY; COMPQ New 14-1/2 Year High

The CME resumes trading on US futures, Treasuries, oil and gold after a four-hour outage. Technical issues are blamed for the trouble in electronic trading overnight. The technical glitches and flash crashes in global markets occur on a regular basis creating concern that a larger and more prolonged shutdown may occur at some point in the future. Any market concern including geopolitics plays a back seat to the stock market optimism generated by central banker money printing.

The yen weakens and the dollar basket strengthens sending the dollar/yen currency pair above 102.20. The w


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00 people have lost their lives falling out of the sky in the last 170 days. Make sure your life insurance is paid up if you travel via air since over four folks are dying per day on the planet due to airplane accidents. At least the deaths are nowhere near the very bad aviation years where between 1900 and 2500 deaths occurred per year in 1972, 1973, 1974 and 1985; although this year is not over yet.

Egypt and the UAE act independently conducting air strikes on Libya targets. This is embarrassing for the Whitehouse since previously Middle East countries would never think of such actions without first informing the US. Middle East countries do not take President Obama seriously so they ignore him. Oil jumps higher in price and always reacts to Libyan news. WTIC oil moves above 93.50. Brent oil leaps to 102.70.

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