wird es wohl keine Rally geben.Der Dow fiel gestern wegen der geringeren Verdienste der multinationalen Firmen durch den Euro,siehe auch Warnung von IBM.Und die Aktionen der EZB erinnern verdammt an die hilflosen Versuche der Deutschen Bundesbank 1987.
Aus einer Analyse von James Cramer bei realmoney.com:But there was another time, in 1990, where oil went to where it is now, and it was bad news for virtually every group, including, it turned out, the oil and oil-service stocks, because boom led very quickly to bust.
Then, as now, retail was terrible. Then, as now, the consumer slowed down. However, then, the financials rolled over too, because of the savings-and-loan crisis and the overbuilding that went on as a part of it. The Fed ended up having to ease and ease aggressively in order to remove the stress from the financial system. The Fed cut rates to save the biggest banks from going under.
We are by no means in that kind of situation. In fact, the financial stocks are roaring, reflecting, I suspect, a potential cut in short-term rates. The credit risk to the economy doesn't seem that great.But the spending slowdown seems to be as great or greater. People are worried. They aren't buying as much as they were before. Corporations are worried, too. They aren't buying as much technology as we thought they would.
We have been reluctant to take any action on this negative thesis because, frankly, we thought the oil situation was temporary. How long, though, is temporary? Is six months temporary? What's happening might be somewhere between temporary and permanent, a phenomenon that could destabilize things just enough to make it tougher than it was a few months ago to make money in the market.
The euro doesn't help. One look at what happened to IBM (IBM:Nasdaq - news) this week tells you that you have to worry about the euro. Business is strong at IBM, but its European business profits get cut by a weak euro. That wasn't in the cards a month or two ago, either.
Und dann noch die Drohung von Iraq gegen Kuweit!