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"News out of the Greece negotiation process is causing investors to take profits," said Art Hogan, chief market strategist at Wunderlich Securities.Read More ECB: Banks can't use Greek debt as collateral"The European Central Bank is telling the Greek banking system that it will no longer accept Greek bonds as collateral for any repo the Greek banks want to conduct," said Peter Boockvar, chief market analyst at The Lindsey Group, said in a note. "This is because the ECB only accepts investment grade paper and up until today gave Greece a waiver to this clause. That waiver has now been taken away and Greek banks now have to go to the Greek Central Bank and tap their Emergency Liquidity Assistance facility for funding. This news will like scare depositors and result in further bank runs. This all said, if Greece can come to an agreement with the troika, I'm sure the ECB will reinstate the waiver."Earlier, the Dow Jones Industrial Average briefly added more than 100 points in the last half-hour of trade, led by Disney. Consumer discretionary gained more than 1 percent to lead sector advancers on the S&P 500.Crude oil futures settled down nearly 9 percent below $49 a barrel, erasing almost all the big gains from the past two days.
Its Greece once again....
and tomorrow after the 1% rally it will be Greece once again who brings positive news to the markets ....
Does anyone really believe that news out of Greece is really moving equities here in the US...just a lame excuse...