Bad Sign for the Buck? Dollar Not Rallying on Crisis

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Sentiment on the dollar is in the tank – and we’ve got a pretty decent crisis on our hands in the Middle East. So you’d think with all the bad news already priced into the buck that this turmoil would be enough to send the dollar sprinting higher. Good guess…but thus far, an incorrect one! […]

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Repeat after me: “They are still all the same markets!” There’s the US Dollar – and then there’s everything else.  And the dollar, just days after QE2 was announced, turned up in sharp fashion.  Some final nail in the coffin that was! It appears this is STILL the only chart we need to watch. (Source: […]

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I gotta admit – the markets almost had me! It looked like the Dollar was never going to turn around.  And then QE2 was announced, which obviously could ONLY be bearish for the dollar, and ONLY bullish for stock prices.  Not to mention the metals, which were sure to do moonshots in short order. A […]

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Many of us here have been anticipating a dollar rally that would kick off an explosive move to the upside for the buck.  Perhaps a short term move, perhaps a more significant event that could bring another wave of deflation to the asset markets (hey, remember deflation?) I was reading Bob Prechter’s latest newsletter yesterday […]

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Everyone hates the US Dollar – again. The Fed is openly signaling to the markets that it is not going to stand by the buck.  The current headline article at Bloomberg.com pertains to New York Fed president William Dudley’s statements that inflation is too low, and unemployment is too high, for the Fed to stand […]

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I was listening to Jim Puplava’s Financial Sense Newshour this morning while cooking breakfast – it’s one of my “old man” traditions, there’s nothing better than cooking up an omelet while getting a technical rundown of the financial markets! As usual, his technical analyst guest was fantastic.  This week it’s Ronald Griess, founder of The […]

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These days we are keeping a keen eye on markets that have been reliable leading indicators of the stock market.  Since 2004 or so, markets have become quite interrelated, creating a lot of interesting relationships in markets that previously had little or no correlation. The correlation of course peaked during the 2007-2009 downturn, when EVERYTHING […]

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Today, US stocks were not successful in issuing a counterpunch to yesterday’s bloodbath, when there were 11 stocks down for every 1 up.  Stocks staged a meager rally after opening – only to swoon late and close at new lows for 2010. As you can see from the chart below, the S&P 500 peaked in […]

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