Quote from Trend Fader:
High oil prices.. Manufacturing in the slumps
Fed raising rates.. yield curve flat..
All the hallmarks of a full blown recession on its way.. I bet by 2006 it all comes into play.
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid={8F5524BB-6617-4460-9024-6608F7915435}&siteid=mktw
I used to think that we were going straight down, but have changed my mind.
1.- The flat yield curve doesn't mean anything this time if you take in consideration that rates come from the lowest they have been in 40 years....
2.- Even though EU economy is much worse than US, European stock markets are doing better than US this year.
3.- Low unemployment, no inflation, 3.5 or 3.4 or 3.0 gdp growth, is good anyway you see it.
The markets should have tanked a long time ago and they didn't.
and they will but it doesn't seem to be anytime soon....