Friday, February 1, 2013

Dislocations

The headline yesterday was that the U.S. stock market had its best January since 1997. Given that risk assets have been almost 100% correlated these past several years, it's no surprise that the pollyannas "forgot" to mention that several risk assets are already trading below their January 2nd "fiscal cliff" gap open:

Apple - most overowned stock of this era
Gold - most overloved, over-advertised and overowned asset of this bubble cycle
Spanish stocks - canary in the coal mine for European stock markets
Junk bonds - gave back four weeks of gains in about three hours earlier this week

Other than that, everything is A-ok...