Friday, July 8, 2016

Greed Is Blindness

U.S. Stocks are diverging massively from everything else "RISK"...

The better than expected jobless report was another excuse to lunge for the all time highs in the S&P 500...



Somehow we are to believe that the U.S. economy added 11,000 jobs in May and 287,000 in June:

BBG June 8, 2015


On another note, someone else has noticed the "Overnight risk" imported from overseas markets, and considers it bullish, what else?
MW July 8, 2016

aka. SPY GAPS




Over the last four months, as you can see, it on average lost ground during those overnight hours, when trading is dominated by foreign traders. During the day session, in contrast, the S&P produced an average gain that is even larger than the overnight losses.

It’s an open-and-shut case: The stock market’s near-term prospects are good.

Oil versus stocks:


Treasuries and JPY versus stocks


It’s an open-and-shut case: The stock market’s near-term prospects are good.



Divergence since April:



S&P versus VIX (inverted):



S&P versus Global Dow (includes U.S.):




Nasdaq count