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A Different Animal
By Rev Shark
Street.com Contributor
3/12/2010 12:22 PM EST
The dip-buyers have stepped up and took us off the lows but it is quiet trading and things are well mixed. Breadth is slightly negative, with steel, oil and retail leading while gold, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and homebuilders lag.
The biggest problem for the bears here is that although we are overbought by just about any measure, we have been so strong that we have created a large supply of underinvested bulls who are anxious to add some long exposure. There are a lot of bulls whose methodology is to buy weakness and to average down into their favorite stocks. This parabolic market has not given them any opportunities to buy. These buyers will be a source of good support as we do pull back.
One thing that has puzzled me about this market since the tremendous rally began a year ago is how there has never been the same euphoria that we experienced during major rallies prior to 2009. I think there are two primary reasons for that. The first is that retail investors never really returned to the market. It is obvious from equity mutual fund inflows [es gab im Gegenteil 25 Mrd. an outflows - A.L.] that individual investors had no interest over the past year. They were scared out during the crash and never returned. [Die Erwartung der Zockerbanken, die von ihnen inszenierte Rallye würde wegen der "schönen Anstiege" Kleinanleger in Euphorie versetzen und in Scharen anziehen, um ihnen den hochgekauften Mist dann umzuhängen, unterschätzt die Psycho-Schäden des 56 % Absturzes - zumal es schon der zweite in einem Jahrzehnt war. Es könnte gut sein, dass die geschundenen Anleger-Seelen nun für Jahre dem Aktienmarkt den Rücken kehren (viele gingen in Bonds, die aber auch nicht sicher sind). Diese nachhaltige Risikoaversion haben die Behavioral Finance"-Strategen der Zockerbanken psychologisch nicht hinreichend berücksichtigt, mMn - A.L.]
That relates to the second reason, which is the wide disconnect that continues to exist between Main Street and Wall Street. The optimism exhibited by the action in the stock market is so different than what is seen on Main Street that it seems like two different worlds. The average retail investor just doesn't believe that things are as good as the stock market seems to be indicating.
I think there are other factors are work here as well, such as the dollar carry trade, which was a tailwind for the market much of last year, and the growth in high-frequency trading, which is now around 70% of market volume according to Barron's.
I miss the excitement and energy that is created when individual traders are very active, and I'm not sure what it will take to restore that. I think the market is going to be a different kind of beast for a while.
Bob Marcin, street.com:
...many of the data points from Europe and the U.S. suggest an economy that's fading a tad. Investors are ignoring this for now, and it might be early to worry. But after some sovereign default, or busted bond deal, or some sloppy ISM release, there will be more risk.
There might be one last blowoff in the global reflation/risk trade. It will feel as if things are back to normal. They are not. That risk trade blowoff would be sellable, even shortable in my opinion.
Auf den ersten Blick etwas verblüffend:
Das Nettovermögen der Amis ist in Q2 und Q3 2009 wieder kräftig gestiegen, insbesondere wegen der Aktienpreis-Entwicklung, genau so wie es die FED ja nachvollziehbar auch beabsichtigt hat (allerdings zum Leidwesen der Shorties). Nachvollziehbar, weil wessen Vermögen gestiegen ist (natürlich auf dem Papier, aber anderswo kann es quantifiziertes Vermögen ja nun mal sowieso nicht geben), der spart statistisch weniger und konsumiert mehr. So weit, so gut. Und hat ja auch einigermassen geklappt...
Aber im Q4 standen die Börsen weitgehend still und das Nettovermögen ist trotzdem weiter mit 5% Jahresrate gestiegen. Warum? Weil so viel Amis mit ihren Hypotheken, die über dem Hauswert lagen, pleite gegangen sind. Und siehe da - schwupp-di-wupp - war der Schulden-"Überhang" weg.
Lustig, wirklich lustig... Dabei ist gegen die Statistik nicht mal etwas einzuwenden. Nur das was sie aussagt, das ist halt für die meisten - vorsichtig gesagt - etwas kontraintuitiv... Mit spitzer Zunge könnte man allerdings einwenden, dass die ideale Reichtumsförderungmassnahme dann wohl darin bestehen müsste, dass man alle Hausbesitzer mit negativer Equity schlagartig pleite gehen lassen würde. Dann müsste der US-Privathaushalt-Reichtum ja wohl in stratosphärische Höhen springen. Vielleicht kommt ja noch jemand darauf... ;-)
Fundamentalistische "Spassverderber"-Bärenthreader werden vermutlich wieder nölen, dass wie bei jeder anständigen Gesamtbilanz den Gewinnern irgendwo ja auch Verlustmacher gegenüberstehen müssen. Und in der Tat, nämlich die Banken, die den obigen Schulden-"Überhang" abschreiben mussten. "Mussten"? Dank mark-to-pleasure kann das ja erstmal im Stillen bleiben... ;-)
Das Artikel-Summary: In all, the latest Fed Flow of Funds data suggest that, to the extent middle class Americans' finances are improving, it's because their liabilities are being reduced by default. The gains in asset values are being concentrated by those so-called households with the ways and means to own equities.
Middle Class Money Angst Still Apparent in DataFed's Flow of Funds numbers again show average Americans' net worth gaining more by mortgage defaults than asset appreciation.
If there is a recovery in Americans' finances, they don't see it.
The Federal Reserve reported Thursday that the net worth of U.S. "households" increased at about a 5% annual rate in the fourth quarter, a good deal slower than the blistering 20% pace over the two previous quarters, but still a solid increase.
Not long after the news was posted on the Wall Street Journal's Web site early that afternoon, the vituperative comments began to flow. Many simply dismissed the data as inaccurate or worse. The numbers simply didn't jibe with what they were seeing in their own finances or those around them.
Most of the gain in wealth has come from the rebound in the stock market, which drove a 15.4% annual rate of gain in households' equity holdings in the period. For the year, their equity holders increased 30.9%.
And that was reflected in the latest Forbes 400 list, the annual tally of the world's plutocrats' lucre. Among Americans -- who were relegated to the No. 2 and 3 slots by Mexican magnate Carlos Slim -- Microsoft chairman Bill Gates saw a $13 billion increase in his net worth, to $53 billion, while his bridge partner, Berkshire Hathaway honcho Warren Buffett, gained $10 billion in wealth, to $47 billion, both largely because of gains in their investment portfolios.
But those gains accrue to a narrow of Americans. "Households" sound like what makes up Mr. Rogers' neighborhood, but to the Fed's statisticians it's a catch-all category for what doesn't fit into the other neat data cubbyholes. That means that "households" include not just regular families but also domestic hedge funds, which are out of the reach of 99% of the rest of us.
Housing is the key asset of the hoi polloi, and the value of households' real-estate assets continued to creep up in the fourth quarter, at a mere 0.9% annual rate, $16.575 trillion from $16.537 trillion. But hey, it still had a plus sign ahead of it for the third straight quarter.
Meanwhile, owners' equity in household real estate saw a higher absolute and percentage increase, to $6.313 trillion from $6.222 trillion, a 5.9% annual rate of gain. That was aided by a continued decline in households' mortgage liabilities in the fourth quarter, to $10.262 trillion from $10.315 trillion.
The reduction in mortgage debt was not so much the result of homeowners' newfound probity in paying off their loans as walking away from them.
The rising tide of foreclosures, bankruptcies and so-called "strategic defaults," where homeowners just stop paying mortgages on homes worth less than their associated liability, have become a well-recognized phenomenon in the three months since it was discussed here following the previous Fed Flow of Funds report.
Indeed, instead of a mortgage being the last loan anybody would default upon, now it's the first. Stop paying your car loan and the repo man comes and you can't get to work. Stop paying your credit card and there may be no way to pay for luxuries such as groceries and medical bills. Stop paying your mortgage and maybe months later the bank will actually act. They've got such a backlog of bad loans that they've got their hands full.
So, that's how American families are getting ahead -- by falling behind on their house payments. Not exactly the path to prosperity.
In any case, U.S. households' total net worth still was down 16% from the end of 2007 and 21% from the absolute peak the following year.
Even more stunningly, households' net worth in real estate was down by more than half -- 53.3%, to be exact -- from the end of 2006, the result of the toxic combination of leverage coming from a 16% increase in mortgage borrowing combined with a 25% in property values over the span.
And, while mortgage debt was getting written down in the fourth quarter, consumer credit fell at the most rapid pace since 1980, according to Goldman Sachs' economists. And in January, the main category of consumer credit showing expansion was student loans, which are supported by various government programs.
As for the asset side, households accumulated Treasuries and most other debt instruments because their cash assets such as bank deposits and money-market funds yield next to nothing.
So, savers' loss is investors' gain as the stock market took flight, fueled largely by the Federal Reserve's policy of keeping short-term rates near zero and buying Treasuries and agency mortgage-backed securities. As mutual-fund flows show, there has been little inflow into domestic equity funds while bond funds have seen a deluge of cash from savers looking a substitute for certificates of deposit paying 1% or so.
In all, the latest Fed Flow of Funds data suggest that, to the extent middle class Americans' finances are improving, it's because their liabilities are being reduced by default. The gains in asset values are being concentrated by those so-called households with the ways and means to own equities.
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