The Morning Morsel-Stocks Down 6% Since Financial Regulation Speech

Posted by UpsideTrader
on February 1st, 2010

“Stated another way, even if TARP saved our financial system from driving off a cliff back in 2008, absent meaningful reform, we are still driving on the same winding mountain road, but this time in a faster car” –Neil Barofsky, TARP regulator at large

Maybe oil companies are next because they make too much loot or maybe some of the food companies will get levied because they are putting too many chocolate chips in their cookies. The markets hate regulation of any kind, they especially hate regulation on a sector that we just threw hundreds of billions at to try and save and then months later try and tear down. Counter intuitive at best. It causes confusion, markets hate confusion.

Spain (EWP), Brazil(EWZ), Russia (RSX), China (FXI) are rolling over on the charts. Is this the stage of the market where the charts are rendered useless and momentum just takes over? I see bear flags everywhere and the momentum has certainly been shifted to the bears.

I walked into the weekend mostly flat and I think we’re going lower, but is a big bounce imminent? “Stuff” looks cheap but I think some “stuff” is going way lower. Vague-but honest. One thing I know, the bulls aren’t making the rules anymore.

Monday, February 01, 2010

Economic

07:00 Brazil Jan PMI Manufacturing

08:30 Dec Personal Income (last 0.4%), Dec Personal Spending (last 0.5%), Dec PCE Deflator y/y (last 1.5%), Dec PCE Core (last m/m 0.0%, y/y 1.4%)

10:00 Dec ISM Manufacturing (last 55.9), Dec ISM Prices Paid (last 61.5), Dec Construction Spending m/m (last -0.6%)

15:00 Treasury quarterly funding estimates

Events

10:00 Treasury Sec Geithner to testify before Senate Finance Committee. 12:00 Treasury’s Barr to speak at conference. Ex-dividend: ATR $0.15. NCIT to be added to the S&P600 after the close.

Earnings

Before the Open: AMG, ACV, CRNT, CYOU, DEP, EPD, XOM, GCI, HAE, HEW, HUM, MDU, MOG/A, NI, ONB, SOHU, SYY. After the Close: ADVS, APC, CCK, DST, EXTR, HOLX, ICUI, LOCM, MNKD, NOA, OCLR, PMT, PCL, RGA, RCII, RTEC, SIMO, TUP, UNCA.

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