Historic Week: US Government Avoids Financial Armageddon
Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2008 Sep 24, 2008 - 02:02 PM GMT
September 22nd , 2008 Issue #27 Vol. 2
Dear Reader,
The financial markets aptly ended a tumultuous week with record busting rallies as Hank Paulson at the US Treasury suspended the FREE MARKET so as to prevent a collapse of the financial system. The two triggering events for the turnaround in stock markets were
a. The SEC banning of short-selling of 799 financial stocks.
b. The US government announcement of the intention to buy up bad bank debt, where the initial outlay will cost the US Tax payer 700 billion.
Historic Week: US Government Avoids Financial Armageddon
The financial markets aptly ended a tumultuous week with record busting rallies as Hank Paulson at the US Treasury suspended the FREE MARKET so as to prevent a collapse of the financial system. The two triggering events for the turnaround in stock markets were a. The SEC banning of short-selling of 799 financial stocks. b. The US government announcement of the intention to buy up bad bank debt, where the initial outlay will cost the US Tax payer 700 billion. Whilst the stock markets soared, bonds slumped and the US Dollar fell, as alluded to in last Sundays analysis that the consequences of a continuous stream of bailing out bank after bank will be a loss of confidence in US Treasury debt and the US dollar, a trend which is now clearly in motion following the announcement of the initial $700 billion bailout of bad bank debt, there should be no illusion that $700 billion marks just the start of an eventual bailout that will exceed several trillions of dollars in the face of global deleveraging of the huge $500 trillion dollar derivatives OTC market, which will likely claim many more banks as counter parties continue to fail. Meanwhile stunned US senators having been finally told the truth by Bernanke, now contemplate the implications for their own 401(k) & IRAs let alone what's good for the country in the long-run, as nearly 30 years of market de-regulation comes to an end and we enter a new era of government capital controls. Timeline of the weeks events in the face of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression : Sunday 14th September 2008
Monday 15th Sept.
Tuesday 16th Sept
Thursday 18th Sept
Friday 19th Sept
Is your Bank Safe ? The Fed's and other central back action does not mean that all the banks have now been saved, as last weeks example of the worlds fourth largest investment bank Lehman's going bankrupt illustrates that literally many hundreds if not a thousand plus banks will go bust during the course of the worsening credit crisis, with all of the consequences for depositors. The following report by EWI presents a list of the 100 safest banks. What happens Next ? Whilst we can discuss the reasons for the rally late last week, i.e. short-covering as well as speculator driven buying in advance of short-covering which implies that the action is direct response to fundamental news. From a technical viewpoint the surge in the stock market of Thursday and Friday is extremely bullish as it both occurred from a level of extreme market volatility as measured by the VIX and the rate of increase was far greater than the preceding declines, these are strong technical indicators of a significant bottom having been made. However, I do expect next week to see a retracement of the rally in the order of 50%, which given the magnitude of the rally would represent a significant decline, i.e. target 11,000 on the Dow 30 and 5150 on the FTSE 100. Gold's breakout above resistance was not unexpected given the magnitude of the crisis, however Fridays action implies that deleveraging may play a bigger hand in the coming weeks than Gold's safe-haven status or the impact of the devaluation of all fiat currencies. The other trends observed that ARE backed up by fundamentals i.e. US Treasury Bonds Sharp Decline - The technical's AND fundamentals support a treasury bond bear market and the infant US Dollar bull market from the 71 low looks like its come to a premature end , which suggests a continuation of the long term bull market as of 2001. Though this outcome is also dependant upon to what degree other countries follow the US example of unlimited money printing bailouts in the face of a collapsing banking system, which many probably will. The big beneficiary, will eventually be commodity prices, I say eventually because prices in the long-run will be supported by the highly inflationary money printing that is going on as evidenced by the ever larger bailout announcements, whilst at the same time hit by the impact of deleveraging which is deflationary. So it definitely means whatever investments investors contemplate will have to be for several years. Investors should keep their eyes on the often mentioned mega-trends which to summarise are - climate change, population growth, emerging markets middle class wealth growth. Therefore the long-term sectors remain as- energy, agri-foods, commodities and emerging markets (construction and consumerism) despite immediate term volatility. Off course the volatility is a god-send to short-term traders, so in that light I close with news that I will be updating my article of October 2007 to include the " Real Secret of Successful Trading" that I intend on publishing next month in the lead up to the 21st anniversary of the great crash. Your expecting a quieter week analyst, Nadeem Walayat, Copyright © 2005-08 Marketoracle.co.uk (Market Oracle Ltd). All rights reserved. Nadeem Walayat has over 20 years experience of trading, analysing and forecasting the financial markets, including one of few who both anticipated and Beat the 1987 Crash. For more in depth analysis on the financial markets make sure to visit the Market Oracle on a regular basis.
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