World Markets Higher On Balance
Richard Rhodes | Dec 19, 2012 02:45PM ET
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The European debt contagion has been “kicked down the road” as Spanish and Italian short-and-long term bond yields have moderated recently given the ECB “plan” to buy bonds of up to 3-years in maturity...but only if asked; and only if conditionality is imposed upon those asking. The Fed has also changed its game from “inflation-fighting” to “unemployment fighting” with the new move to QE-4; and with any war — they will go further and farther than anyone believes in printing money to achieve their ends.
STRATEGY: The S&P 500 remains above the 160-wma long-term support level at 1257. The much followed 200-dma support level stands at 1388, and was regained in weekly key bullish reversal fashoin. Collectively, this stands bullish for a test and likely brekaout above the recent September highs at 1475. We are long of gold...and waiting, energy and transports at this juncture.
WORLD MARKETS ARE HIGHER THIS MORNING ON BALANCE: The only bourse lower is China’s Shanghai Index, which is down a paltry -0.1%. Japan is the clear leader, with gains of +2.38%, which comes on the heels of Saturday’s election in which the conservative LDP came back into power with PM Abe. The talk of Tokyo is the pressure that Mr. Abe is putting upon the Bank of Japan to expand, expand and further expand its balance sheet until 2.0% inflation or more is achieved.
In Europe, the major bourses are higher very modestly – up +0.4% or a bit more; Italy and Spain are higher by over +1.0%. Ostensibly, this is due in large part to the fact that Greece – yes Greece of all countries – had its credit rating “raised” by 6 points after the Troika released $45 billion in funding. Of course, this doesn’t matter to the Greeks, for the public workers are striking today. Regardless, the euro is higher as are other commodities…its “risk-on” for the moment.
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