Aftershocks!
I was sitting at my lab desk when the earthquake hit today. I felt a weird rolling sensation and the liquids in bottles on the shelf were moving! It stopped, then happened again. Bizarre feeling!! A bit unnerving. Anyways, no problems here from the quake. That was a first for me.
Ben Bernanke: Follow for Friday (#FF)
Markets blew up sky high today. It was just like the old days; rumors, scared shorts, natural disaster. Crazy stuff.
Today was a monster day because:
-Shorts running for hills before Friday's Jackson Hole speech
-Rumors about short bans being extended
-Rumors JPM would take over BAC (??)
-People were bored of red numbers
In any case, I did notice many that were in a mode of "sell rallies" did the 180 and became bottom buyers right here. I see no reason to get involved until I know what the FED has planned for Friday. If we get some crazy QE iteration with cash raining down from above, markets could rally for months until they figure out it did not work. No reason to get in right this second. If Bernanke plays hands off and yells at CONgress to get something done, being long is not going to feel good.
Besides, the S&P 500 has not really breached an area I would feel strong about getting long yet. A close and hold over 1180 would be a start. It might happen tomorrow. Pragmatic Capitalism had the perfect note on this today:
The bigger news of the day is the widespread belief that Bernanke is going to whip out a bazooka this Friday. If you’re a short seller heading into Friday you’re rightfully afraid. Why would you risk being short into an announcement by a man who is overly in-love with market performance and persistent in building up the Bernanke Put? The right answer is that you’d have to be borderline insane to be heavily short into the Jackson Hole speech. Bernanke’s baby is crying and he’s been prone to give it what it wants every time it cries hard enough for it. And as markets sink in recent weeks there should be little doubt that Bernanke will ride to the rescue, pacifier in hand, ready to insert into the crying mouth of this bloated baby known as Wall Street.Nice!
Anyone that heeded my metals note last night can hit the DONATE button, you are welcome!
Great Photo
Via Geekologie (click for bigger view):
This is the photo taken 45-years ago today when Lunar Orbiter 1, tasked with locating a suitable landing zone for the future Apollo missions, turned around and took a picture of earth from the moon.
Have a good night.
10 comments:
Yeah, that trembler was quite surreal! You hit it on the head. I would imagine we felt it just a teeny bit stronger here, but in the end it wasn't really all that bad. Kind of neat, actually. I wouldn't want to be in anything stronger, mind you, but this was . . . okay.
I'm glad your OK GYSC, quakes are some scary stuff.
That Earth shot is in black and white, I could have sworn that I had seen it in color before, did someone colorize it for effect at one time I wonder?
Regardless, that is an amazing shot.
If I understand correctly from what I've read, July housing came in worse than thought, and the trucking sector didn't look too hot either, but the market rallies anyway on this Fed stuff?
Hmmm.
I've never felt an earthquake, and I'm assuming I never want to. Glad all you guys on the other side of the country are okay.
Cool earth pic!
David, yes I could never live in an earthquake area.
Watchtower, Ther Apollo astronauts took great pictures in color, that may be the one yo are thinking of.
JH, No quakes in Seattle? I thought it was sort of close to the zone there?
Glad you're alright from the quake. I've never been in one, but have been around lots of tornados.
I'll bet you'll be getting a workout after the tree crew left. I was cleaning up one of my fences over the weekend and stopped for the morning after seeing some poison ivy. I didn't see it soon enough. Got some on my wrist even tho I washed off right away. Hopefully you don't have any poison oak or ivy that'll sneak up on you!
Was wondering if you felt it up in Boston. Some pretty violent shaking here in N. Virginia. Amazing...
Scientists crack the genetic code of the yeast for lager beer.
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/202349/20110823/yeast-lager-beer-university-of-wisconsin-madison-saccharomyces-cerevisiae-stowaway-patagonia-alcohol.htm
Now that's news.
Great news Gawains!
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