Metro, klar von Dir habe ich sowas erwartet.
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Casa Ubon, das bist doch Du - c'est toi, n'est-ce pas? Aber Dein Bild passt noch, oder?

Foto: AP
Nicht einmal EZB-Präsident Jean-Claude Trichet hat ein klares Bild von der ökonomischen Zukunft
Quelle: http://www.welt.de/finanzen/article1236919/...h_von__Rentenfonds.html
Wall Streeter
Jens Korte: Martini-Partys und Imagepflege
Diese bekommen einen Martini oder ein Bier in die eine und den Vorschlaghammer in die andere Hand. Und los geht's! Beschwingt hauen die Amateure dann schon mal die falsche Wand ein oder kleben die Tapete anders als vorgesehen auf. Es gibt Berichte, wonach Fliesen kreuz und quer durch das Bad gelegt wurden. Auch soll es schon mal passieren, dass Elektrokabel versehentlich gekappt werden. Die feuchtfröhlichen Selbsthilfepartys seien geradezu eine Einladung zum Desaster, ließ kürzlich die National Association of the Remodeling Industry verlauten. Der Rat des Branchenverbands: Die Bar erst öffnen, wenn der Job erledigt ist.
Laut dem Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies werden die Ausgaben für Hausverschönerungen in diesem Jahr lediglich um drei Prozent steigen und Anfang nächsten Jahres weitgehend stagnieren. Ein weiteres Signal dafür, dass die Krise am Immobilienmarkt wohl noch nicht überstanden ist.
Keine Freunde oder Nachbarn, sondern knallharte Profis hat Countrywide Financial jetzt angeheuert, um sein angekratztes Image aufzupolieren. Der Hypothekenfinanzierer ist an der Wall Street zum Inbegriff für teilweise zweifelhafte Methoden geworden, wie Kunden Hypotheken angedreht wurden. Mit einer aggressiven Kampagne will Countrywide nun Kunden und Investoren zurückgewinnen. Für den Job wurde kein geringerer ausgewählt als Burson-Marsteller. Die berühmt-berüchtigte PR-Agentur beriet neben Rumäniens Diktator Nicolae Ceausescu Ende der 70er-Jahre die Militärjunta in Argentinien und Mitte der 80er-Jahre Union Carbide. Der US-Chemiekonzern wurde bekanntlich für die Giftgasunfälle im indischen Bhopal verantwortlich gemacht.
"Protect Your House" - also schütze dein Haus - lautet der Arbeitstitel für Countrywide. Die Axt im Haus erspart den Zimmermann, wäre auch ein schönes Motto. Aber den Martini, den gibt es erst hinterher.
Jens Korte schreibt als Wall-Street-Korrespondent für die FTD
Quelle: www.ftd.de
(nicht unähnlich Gehrt im letzten Posting, dafür aber short, teils mit bärischen Put-Spreads)
Financials
Fade the S&P's Move to New Highs
By Harry Schiller
Street.com Contributor
10/5/2007 4:07 PM EDT
You may recall that back in July, I warned of some likely trouble occurring as the S&P 500 probed its prior all-time highs just shy of the 1553 level. I said I would sell into that pop and go short as the old highs were revisited.
That worked out pretty well, as the S&P would fall 185 points over the next month. Too bad I didn't stay short for the entire drop. But now, the market is back at the same level. In fact, it's at new all-time highs in the S&P, so far by less than 3 points (as of 1:45 p.m. EDT).
Once again, I am not interested in buying or even holding long. I am only interested in the short side at current levels.
As I explained in previous columns, holding long or buying into an area of resistance that has been so formidable over recent years is like putting your foot on the accelerator (rather than the brakes) as you speed toward a brick wall. Why do it? Why not look for another way to make a buck? There are plenty of them -- just ask the subprime borrowers.
Here is the story of the retracement pattern:
Recall that the S&P 500 topped out in March of 2000 at 1552.87. From there, it took about 2½ years for the SPX to lose about half of its value. And from there, it took almost twice as long -- almost five years -- for the SPX to scratch and claw its way back up to the highs, topping out about 3 points above the prior high in July of this year. That, as I have said before, is the story of a complete retracement pattern. But then another retracement followed.
This was the retracement of the rally from the lows of this year on March 14 to new all-time highs on July 16. It took about four months for the SPX to rally almost 200 points to new all-time highs (on July 16) at 1555.90. And from there it only took about a month to retrace almost the entire advance. The Aug. 16 low in the SPX was less than 7 points above the March lows.
And now, as of today, we have yet another complete retracement -- this one is of the 185-point decline from the July highs to the August lows -- and we now are at another new high. While a breakout above this level would be bullish, a failure of some sort in this area cannot be ruled out. And for that matter, I would assume that any pop up to a higher high ultimately gets retraced, because that's what this thing does.
Today the market is surging in the wake of the stronger-than-expected jobs data, despite the negative impact on interest rates (bonds are dropping sharply). The S&P has now scored a new all time high by less than 3 points so far (1558.67 is the new high at this moment), leaving open the possibility of some stalling in this area.
| SPX New highs by less than 3 points |
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| S&P Futures Continuation Chart Heading back toward prior highs |
| (Chart im folgenden Posting) |
Of course, it's not all about the S&P. The NDX was certainly instrumental in setting up for this move with its own short-term retracement over the past few days. In the chart below, you will note how the NDX gapped up on Monday and then spent the next three days pulling back to completely retrace that move, filling the gap at 2091 and bottoming about 2 points lower at the 2089 level yesterday before rebounding into the close. That took care of that and now this morning it's off to the races with a big gap up opening from Thursday's close at 2105.56 -- another gap that will get filled.
| NDX: Filling Monday's Gap Setting the stage for a rally |
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Then in the Dow, we had another kind of retracement over the past few days. It was a retracement of the move from one high to the next. After making a new all-time high on Monday at 14,115.51, the Dow had to pull back to its prior high at 14,021. It did that and then some -- it cracked below the 14,000 level just to get some recent buyers to rethink their purchases. But the point is, the pullback completed another kind of retracement pattern -- a retracement from the new high back to the prior high. It happens as consistently as the sun rising in the east.
| Dow Jones Industrials Pulling back to prior highs |
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Today, the Nasdaq (and NDX) and SPX are at new highs, but for the moment the Dow is still lagging a bit. But that's not all bad, as it is bullish when the broad market outperforms, as it has today.
Breadth is extremely positive, especially on the Nasdaq, and the Russell 2000 is quite strong. All of this is good for the bullish case.
Only reason to sell short here is the significance of this level in the S&P, and the fact that the market was already overbought coming into today's session. The McClellan Oscillator closed yesterday at a fully overbought +116.5. That's enough to get me looking for another shakeout. And I haven't even talked about sentiment.
At the time of publication, Schiller was short NDX funds, bearish credit spreads in QQQQ out-of-the-money calls and long bullish ratio spreads in the Dow, although holdings can change at any time.
Jetzt drehen die Bullen komplett ab: Die Märkte werden quasi als "unverwundbar" deklariert. Egal was kommt, die Kurse können nur noch steigen... Kommentar überflüssig.
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Interest Rate Cut Might Not Be Needed to Fuel a Fourth-Quarter Rally on Wall Street
NEW YORK (AP) -- Although the prospects for a late October interest rate cut have dimmed, the chances for a yearend stock rally still seem quite good.
Investors have been feeling more confident since the Federal Reserve cut rates a half percentage point on Sept. 18, and were looking for a repeat at the Fed's Oct. 30-31 meeting to keep stocks driving higher. But while a strong jobs report from the Labor Department lessened the likelihood of a rate cut this month, there's growing sentiment that one might not be needed for Wall Street to have its traditional fourth-quarter rally.
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"The Fed and the markets will be watching all the incoming data very closely, but it really seems unlikely we'll get enough negative data that will force them to once again lower rates," said Michael Sheldon, chief market strategist at Spencer Clarke LLC. "It will take an awful lot to bring the Fed off the sidelines, and we're heading into a historically strong part of the year."
Indeed, the Dow Jones industrial average has rallied during the final quarter for the past nine years straight. The Standard & Poor's 500 index has had a fourth-quarter sprint in 13 of the past 15 years.
The current optimism is a turnaround from Wall Street's mood of just over a month ago, when any rally seemed in jeopardy amid a harrowing tightening of credit, continuing erosion in the housing sector, and escalating energy prices. The Fed's half-point rate cut helped restore investors' faith in stocks and the economy overall.
Sheldon and other analysts say they aren't all that concerned about what the Fed does later this month. That's already been reflected in the futures that track the federal funds rate, which dropped from almost unanimous expectation for a cut to about a 50 percent chance.
"The market is really in a sweet spot for a number of reasons," said Todd Salamone, director of trading at Schaeffer's Investment Research in Cincinnati. "You felt a rate cut coming if there was bad data, and more confidence in the economy if there was good data. You really couldn't lose, and that's where we want to stay."
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