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COMMENTARY for Tuesday

World Is Watching Stanford’s Fire Sale

by Rick Ackerman on October 6, 2009 3:29 am GMT · 16 comments

Stanford University is attempting to unload $1 billion worth of hard-to-sell assets — a treacherous undertaking that the Wall Street Journal said was being closely watched by private equity. That’s an understatement, since hundreds of the world’s biggest institutional and sovereign investors have portfolios very similar to Stanford’s, and many of them will be equally desperate to raise cash in these straitened times.  The portfolio model they have embraced, perhaps all too eagerly, in recent years was pioneered by » Read the full article


TODAY'S ACTION for Tuesday

Bull trap still in effect…

by Rick Ackerman on October 6, 2009 4:30 am GMT · 0 comments

The E-Minis were remorseless Monday night, unwilling as of 10:30 p.m. to pull back more than a few measly points after the day’s moderate short-squeeze. Even so, there is real resistance not far above — and more than a few sellers who will be feeling trapped by the sudden decline from September 23’s top at 1075.75.


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GCZ09 – Comex December Gold (Last:1020.90)

by Rick Ackerman on October 6, 2009 3:57 am GMT

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DXY – NYBOT Dollar Index (Last:76.54)

by Rick Ackerman on October 6, 2009 4:10 am GMT

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ESZ09 – E-Mini S&P (Last:1036.50)

by Rick Ackerman on October 6, 2009 4:17 am GMT

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SIDE BETS for Tuesday

SIZ09 – December Silver (Last: 16.870)

by Rick Ackerman on October 6, 2009 4:23 am GMT · 0 comments

The futures topped yesterday half a penny from the ‘D’ target of a pattern on the hourly chart begun from 15.760 a week ago. If they get second wind today — most likely, in my view –  they can scare the bejayzus out of shorts with a print at 17.115. That would create an irresistibly powerful impulse leg on the hourly chart, and with it the likely prospect of a test of mid-September’s 17.690 high.


This Just In... for Tuesday

Mish on Deflation…

by Rick Ackerman on October 6, 2009 12:01 am GMT · 0 comments

We stopped “debating” the inflationists a while back simply because their arguments had become too bloody stupid to endure. Obviously, they have not been playing with a full deck, since they continue to obsess over the absolutely useless textbook definition of deflation – ”a decrease in the money supply.”  Rather than have you become confused by all the drivel and ignorant blather concerning the money supply, which virtually no one understands, we would rather that you see deflation for what it is: an increase in the real burden of debt.

One of my ablest comrades-in-arms has been Mish Shedlock, a deflationist with more patience than I when it comes to dealing with the factually challenged.  In his latest commentary, Mish mostly agrees with some points concerning deflation made by David Rosenberg, an economist who has earned our respect. Click here  to access the article.