Nothing the fed does will end up preventing the collapse of the whole system. all they are doing is making the eventual day even worse by pumping even more debt into a system that is has massive liability problem. eventually the system will break itself. whether we voluntarily begin to convert debt into equity is the question 6 times public debt to gdp is not sustainable
NDX normalized by USD has FAILED to reach new highs. it does look better than SPX (see previous charts) but is still around Oct-2009, Nov-2009, Jan-2010 highs (and we were crazily overbought back then just like now. so...). the up leg of the last week is total illusion due to dollar strength.
From the 60 min. chart, it looks like equity is some what correlated to CL. http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=5l51qq&s=5 I don't have the higher tine frame to know for sure.
Despite significant Euro weakness stocks and commodities holding up rather nicely compared to the correlation they showed say 6 months ago where a 1% upmove in the USD would have caused far more downward pressure on risk assets such as stocks and commodities.
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