After last week's sell-off a lot of people were caught underwater on positions. So after the market's bounce this morning, traders took it as an opportunity to lighten up on their positions . . . to buy back on some of their loss incurred Friday. |
All these fears that were in the market this week won't go away. Don't expect them to go away over the weekend. |
Even if they give you a warm hug while they do it, just the fact that they intentionally changed the statement in order to give themselves more flexibility would force investors to respond. |
Everyone's talking about the Fed's deflation paper. You're starting to see a lot of people talk about Japan and comparing it to here. |
Heavily unionized industries have a much higher filing rate because the union does all the paperwork for you and lets you know how the system works. |
I'm not against conspiracy theories as a whole, but they have to be at least somewhat credible. I guess that now that the 'X Files' is off the air you need to have this stuff to fill the void. |
I'm shocked by the Fed's move. It's hard for me to say it all makes sense. |
If we get anything close to the 1.4 (percent) increase in the first-quarter, that will put the Fed back into play. |
In all their recent speeches, Fed officials certainly haven't given up any flexibility at all. For them to do something where they give up a tremendous amount of flexibility would be a big surprise. |
It won't make these problems go away, but it certainly will help. |
It's a very volatile component that should come back in the fist quarter. It's a weak report, but it's not quite as God-awful as the headline numbers make it look. |
It's going to be much harder for the Fed to talk rates down after what's gone on lately. At this stage it's really going to require action rather than talk. |
It's very bizarre. You didn't get much activity at all after the number came out, and then people went back to talking about the war. |
People are concerned about how smoothly today's auction will go. |
People assume that because the flow of information is faster, the results will be faster. |