Sunday, October 13, 2013

Stock Market Drop Projected For Monday IS NOT Enough to Break the Washington Logjam

The run up in equities late last week is looking premature. During the Financial panic of 2008 it took a 7% one day drop to get the attention of the politicians.
At current levels that's over 1000 points on the DJIA.
From ZeroHedge:

Early FX Indications: EURJPY Slide Implies 15 Point Futures Drop At Open
In a world in which only the central banks' balance sheets matter, and everything, when stripped of its product complexity, is simply a derivation of a cheap money carry trade, as can be seen on the chart below showing the correlation between the the ES and the EURJPY which have become interchangeable...

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Interesting because the implied 15 point ES drop in futures as of the early indications...
... is hardly the large enough drop that is needed to once again [blank] the GOP in either the House or the Senate to scramble and get a deal done, following  the recent two-day epic surge in the market on hopes that deal concerns would no longer be an issue....