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Quote from m22au:

Agree. Risk assets had every good reason to trade down heavily and close near the lows of the day: awful jobs data + massive rally since 27 June = sell sell sell.

But instead equities and other risk assets closed at the high of the day. And not only that - have a look at the price action in some momentum stocks, such as SODA (+5%) VHC (+8% to 52w high) JVA (+19% to 52w high) LNKD (+5% to 52w high) P (+1.5%) YOKU (+4%).

And then there is the action of bigger, slightly better quality stocks, such as AAPL AMZN NFLX PCLN ISRG BIDU which were green on the day.

Although I thought the combination of the QE2 and weak economic data would send the stockmarket lower, Friday's action says otherwise.

Looks like I might be wrong on the above commentary. Unlike Friday, US stocks are finding it more difficult today to ignore bad news relating to Europe.
 
Quote from Debaser82:

Martin, what do you make of Berlusconi's booting its finance minister? He was suposed to be a real class act no?
I agree re Italy. Also, as I mentioned elsewhere, if Tremonti goes and Bunga Bunga Boy gets to be in charge, it's time to abandon all hope. I can only imagine who's gonna be the next finance minister in his cabinet. Ruby Rubacuore?
 
Greek bank deposits continue to decline
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-...decline-to-191-9-billion-euros-in-may-1-.html

Hard to not see how this is not very bearish for the EUR. Up to this point some EU citizens have taken comfort on the fact that they can simply move their deposits to other countries in the EU for protection(Germany, etc). But I have a hard time seeing that continue if the larger pigs join the bailout line(Italy and Spain, Spain 2y seems to be up 40bps today). Of course, some people are just idiots and they wont move their money out of the currency not matter how bad things get but some will and this will exert downward pressure on the EUR exchange rate
 
Quote from Daal:

Greek bank deposits continue to decline
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-...decline-to-191-9-billion-euros-in-may-1-.html

Hard to not see how this is not very bearish for the EUR. Up to this point some EU citizens have taken comfort on the fact that they can simply move their deposits to other countries in the EU for protection(Germany, etc). But I have a hard time seeing that continue if the larger pigs join the bailout line(Italy and Spain, Spain 2y seems to be up 40bps today). Of course, some people are just idiots and they wont move their money out of the currency not matter how bad things get but some will and this will exert downward pressure on the EUR exchange rate

snap Daal:
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=198211

I am short NBG, not just because of the Greek govt debt problem, but because of the ongoing bank run.
 
Quote from Martinghoul:

Nicely? It was up almost 1.5 points at one point today, mate!

Do you have any info on the Swiss banks exposure to the pigs?I just can't believe they will escape from losses, so I might have to get out of the CHF
 
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