Quote from shortie:
will healthcare bill be the driver for the coming week market action?
http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2010/20100319055725.aspx
As CNBC âMad Moneyâ host Jim Cramer predicted â if it passes, get ready to see a sell-off on Wall Street. Cramer appeared on CNBCâs March 18 âThe Kudlow Report,â with his former broadcast partner Larry Kudlow. Kudlow asked Cramer to elaborate on his theory ObamaCare could send the financial markets reeling or âtopple the stock market,â as Kudlow described it.
âFirst, it is the single biggest impediment to the stock market going higher,â Cramer said. âAnd a lot of this has to do with what's not being talked about enough with how it's going to be paid and also about what it will do to small business formation. This bill is a disaster for both.â
Cramer said the uncertainty this health care bill present to entrepreneurs is an obstacle, but he also explained the anticipated higher taxes that will finance this legislation are going to be another barrier for higher stock prices.
âYou're either going to have health care premiums go up dramatically, which is just terrible, particularly if you and I wanted to start a business,â Cramer said. âWe would have no idea how much it would cost. But the last thing we want to do is start it. Probably stay at our old job. Yet you and I know that small businesses are the secret. That's how we get employment in this country. Or we have dramatically higher taxes. And it looks like -- people won't even realize it when it hits them â but you and I fought very hard for a very long time to reduce taxes and I think we played a role. Reduce taxes on capital gains, reduce taxes on dividends.â
And with higher taxes, Cramer explained the appetite for risk wonât be there for investment in the economy.
âAt a time when the investor is just completely flummoxed, doesn't know what to do â I think itâs going to lead to big selling in the second half of the year, when people say, âJeez, all the reasons, the favorable tax treatment that made us risk owning stocks â going away.â Very bad for the stock market.â
Dear Shortie
1- Do you really listen to Cramer ? ...
2- Even if the health care bill gets a very bad interpretation by market, it really does not mean that the correction happens here.
To me the only thing that matters now is just which one the technical analysis will win, The breakout above the previous high which was 1150, OR , the overbought situation we currently seeing in many indicators. I bet you there are many suckers who are willing to buy this little drop also.
You and I and probably many others are already in the position and just should be worried about our stop loss orders now.
are you going to re-enter if your stop is hit or you stay in the sideline.. ??
, but there is not guarantee as we all know.