Too many numbers being released

[DeepFried]

Quote from Avid_Consumer:

the stock mkt has basically become one conslidated certificate of deposit... for better or worse

personally i say worse, but if the other option is a recession that causes major segments of the leveraged economy to realize some level of potentially contagious insolvency, it's easy to see why the creators and users of liquidity need/prefer it to remain this way.

can you still call it a 'free' market though when the price is mostly liquidity driven vs representing the competetiveness and value of the actual businesses?

i just fail to recognize a point or situation in which the fed/institutions will reverse the liquidity pump as our society is increasingly dependent on it to maintain the status quo. how is it not a one way street to hyperinflation

Yeah, the market is in many ways a fulcrum point for a zillion leveraged strategies that create pressure for the market to do not much of anything.

Check out these headlines from Bloomberg:

"KKR to Acquire First Data for $25.6 Billion in Second-Largest Buyout Ever"

"New Century Files for Bankruptcy as U.S. Subprime-Mortgage Defaults Surge"

Which will have a bigger impact on the markets? Big money liquidity or the inflation, low wage and confidence tribulations of the Great Unwashed?

 

[blast19]

Quote from stock_trad3r:

I am still long and I intend to ride this downturn out while buying dips if possible, but it is annoying when everyday there is another number and the nasdaq drops .3-.7% as a result

and then that loser bernake pissed on our rally last week cause he didn't reiterate that inflation was under control

Why does there have to be 5 housing numbers in a single month and 5 manufacturing numbers?

I had to bring this thread back to the top because you're such a tool.

By chance stock_trad3r, is your name Veruca Salt?