What Happened to the Stock Market Crash?
Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009 Nov 07, 2009 - 01:10 AMBy: Nadeem_Walayat
Dear Reader
The big news of the week was the U.S. unemployment rate breaking above 10% to the highest rate in 26 years with all the expectations of the jobless recovery continuing well into 2010. Other news out of the U.S. came from the Fed confirming the view that U.S. Interest rates would be kept low for sometime.
Meanwhile in Britain the Bank of England announced that it will print a further extra £25 billion to keep the mild economic recovery chugging along into a May 2010 General Election, bringing the total now to £200 billion. Back in July 2009 the consensus was that the Bank had halted its Quantitative Easing programme at £125 billion.
i.e.
Telegraph - 10th July 2009 - Bank of England indicates an end to quantitative easing
Daily Mail - 9th July 2009 - Bank of England turns off printing presses on 'quantitative easing' …
Independent - 10th July 09 - City is caught by surprise as Bank stops 'printing money'
QE now at £200 billion illustrates the lemming like behaviour of the mainstream press that tend to act like sheep baahing in the same direction, though if they actually took the time to analyse the situation then maybe they would come up with a more accurate conclusion ?
At the time in the analysis - Irrelevant UK Base Interest Rate on Hold as Real Rates have Already Begun to Rise, I concluded that it was not possible for the Bank of England to halt money printing at the then current level of £125 billion and most likely the total would hit £250 billion by year end.
Financial Market Trends and Forecasts Update
Last weekends in depth analysis (Stocks, Dollar and Gold Bull Markets Inter-market Analysis) gave updated projections for key markets into the end of 2009 and early 2010 as summarised below:
Gold Targeting $1200 by March 2010 : $1,096 ($1,046) + 4.8%
Gold is performing strongly as a consequence of the breakout from a near 30 year trading range. The Bull scenario remains in tact as long as $1020 holds.
Dow Targeting 10,350 to 10,500 During December 2009 :10,023 (9,712) + 3.2%
The price action remains for the Dow to exhibit a volatile trend into year the end target. The risk of 9430 breaking has diminished a little, but remains a possibility until the Dow breaks above 10120 which would effectively set the floor in the range 9700 to 9430.
What happened to the Crash ? Octobers over bearing bearish calls emanating right from the top of the analyst food chain as my recent article on Nouriel Roubini illustrated, the bears must be eyeing hibernation if 10120 breaks? Next week should prove interesting, though I suspect a Dow new 2009 high may be accompanied by the game of stock index musical chairs i.e. Forget the Dow and pick an index that has NOT gone to a new 2009 high to cling on for a while longer.
In Summary - 10,120 break is required to confirm this weeks apparent strength, though not far, only 100 points.
USD Targeting 84 during December 2009 : 75.90 (76.36) - 0.6%
In one word, WEAK, Whilst the previous low holds the bullish scenario manages to remain in tact.
Question from DPM - On dollar - Your prediction related to dollar multi-month up cycle is not sync with long upcycle run on Dow. They are inversely related. Your article on 'Aug 24, 2009' told about 10K level on DJIA and bull run for dollar( dollar index was around 77.5). Dow went higher and dollar went down(75).
I respect your views but hope to get more clarity regarding Dow when dollar reaches 90.Similar question was also asked on 'Aug 24, 2009' by another reader.
Answer - USD has shown weakness, it is not rallying, last weeks analysis revised this years target to 84. The focus of analysis is on the actual market rather than any suggestive inverse relationship. I would NOT be surprised that in a time when virtually everyone believes and alludes to the Dow / USD inverse relationship that it is at THIS TIME that it breaks down, which is why one needs to primarily keep focus on the actual market being traded.
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