Just What The HELL Are Traders Thinking?

[BakshisMouse]

Anyone with eyes to see or fingers to read Braille knows that the Euro currency is not long for this world. Germany and the European Central Bank are screwing themselves over royally right now. This is more clear now than it was in October.

Why is the S&P 500 still more than 20% above the 52-week low? It's more than reasonable to assume the market will eventually see even larger losses than what were seen last year.

 

[Avorysuds]

Bubbles... QE3.... this is what they are thinking, get rich before they crash the markets then ger the Government to bail them out. Bushbama will save them.

 

[BakshisMouse]

Bubbles... QE3.... this is what they are thinking, get rich before they crash the markets then ger the Government to bail them out. Bushbama will save them.

Last time I checked, when there was a huge market crash in 2008/2009, shareholders lost big time, but the corporations themselves were saved.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

QE3
The market has a fail safe backup account called "FED". The Plutocratic system in Washington will not let them lose this much money.
You ask this question as if you think Wall Street is doing anything different now than in 2006 and before.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

-- Also the larger traders have automatic sell levels. So they stay in all the way to the moment of crashing.
This is why markets crash so suddenly.

 

[BakshisMouse]

The Federal Reserve is doing its part to keep long-term interest rates low.

Why would any private financial firm be grateful for the Fed's efforts?

 

[Animus]

The Federal Reserve is doing its part to keep long-term interest rates low.

Why would any private financial firm be grateful for the Fed's efforts?

Great points. It'll be interesting to see the fight between small private banks and the "Too Big to Fails" as this thing starts to unravel.

 

[Sallow]

The Federal Reserve is doing its part to keep long-term interest rates low.

Why would any private financial firm be grateful for the Fed's efforts?

What? They don't borrow money?

 

[BakshisMouse]

The Federal Reserve is doing its part to keep long-term interest rates low.

Why would any private financial firm be grateful for the Fed's efforts?

What? They don't borrow money?

They lend more money than they borrow.

 

[Middleoftheroad]

The Federal Reserve is doing its part to keep long-term interest rates low.

Why would any private financial firm be grateful for the Fed's efforts?

What? They don't borrow money?

They lend more money than they borrow.

Well not really. They don't use their own cash for lending. All the lending comes from money they borrow from the fed or from their customers. As interest rates lower the lending and the borrowing rates decline. So they pay less to those they borrow from and they collect less from those they lend too. What they are hoping for is lower rates to increase how much people are borrowing, which means more money for them.

 

[flacaltenn]

Anyone with eyes to see or fingers to read Braille knows that the Euro currency is not long for this world. Germany and the European Central Bank are screwing themselves over royally right now. This is more clear now than it was in October.

Why is the S&P 500 still more than 20% above the 52-week low? It's more than reasonable to assume the market will eventually see even larger losses than what were seen last year.

Oh -- I think the Euro will be around for a LONG time. Unlike several of the naughty EU nephews who are gonna get sent home from Brussels......

It's not what YOU SPEND -- it's who you KNOW... Ya know...

 

[uscitizen]

Bubbles... QE3.... this is what they are thinking, get rich before they crash the markets then ger the Government to bail them out. Bushbama will save them.

Bushbama and the congress who voted for them.
Lets not leave that little detail out.

 

[Toro]

QE is the heroin of the market.

 

[Paulie]

The Federal Reserve is doing its part to keep long-term interest rates low.

Why would any private financial firm be grateful for the Fed's efforts?

Because they get to borrow money for free and play with it.

 

[Toro]

I don't think stocks have been rising this week because the market has been anticipating more QE. If it were, gold and silver should have been rising. But both have been subdued the last few days. This tells me the market thinks the New Democracy party will win the Greek elections and not Syriza.

 

[52ndStreet]

Anyone with eyes to see or fingers to read Braille knows that the Euro currency is not long for this world. Germany and the European Central Bank are screwing themselves over royally right now. This is more clear now than it was in October.

Why is the S&P 500 still more than 20% above the 52-week low? It's more than reasonable to assume the market will eventually see even larger losses than what were seen last year.

The Euro , and the Euro debt are going to cause another major global economic catastrophe, this is true. If current European band-aid economic remedies, from European
central banks seem to continue to give a false sense of recovery from the main economic
problems. An infusion of other global currencies to provide temporary liquididy, on the credit , and lending sectors will also be short lived.

The economic problems must be addressed head on now, if the Eurozone is to survive in the future for the long term.

Europeans must pay more taxes for many of their socialist type styled governments,
and they must seek to have people employed.

There is a reason why the British never fully accepted the "Euro", or the bulk of the Eurozone policies.

The worst is yet to come for Europe.!
If they continue with their current misguided Economic plans.