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This 2 Day Stock Market Crash Was Larger Than Any 1 Day Stock …

This 2 Day Stock Market Crash Was Larger Than Any 1 Day Stock Market Crash In U.S. History
By Michael Snyder, on August 21st, 2015We witnessed something truly historic happen on Friday.  The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted 530 points, and that followed a 358 point crash on Thursday.  When you add those two days together, the total two day […]

As the stock market gets rocked, let's remember … – Business Insider

UBSUBS’s Julian Emanuel highlighted this in a July note to clients.The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged a shocking 508 points — or about 22.6% — back on October 19, 1987.But as scary as that drop was, US economic growth was resilient, and gross-domestic-product growth never went negative.This little anecdote about the 1987 crash is important to remember in light of this week’s hemorrhaging stock […]

Momo No Mo’ – BofAML Warns Stocks "Close To A Tipping Point"

Momentum traders – relying on the ‘trend is your friend’ theme – may have a rude awakening soon as momentum stocks trade at a stunning 50% premium to the market (vs an average 20%). As BofAML notes, high growth, high multiple names that have been leading the market over the past year are showing some signs suggest we are close […]

The Chart That No Stock Market Bull Wants To See | Zero Hedge

The omens are not good when momentum and quality become highly correlated, warns SocGen’s cross-asset research group.Quality is now essentially price momentum and vice versa, and history tells us when these two strategies collide the omens are not usually good, as it is a phenomena usually associated with equity markets turning bearish. This becomes even more evident when they plug […]

With All Eyes On Payrolls US Futures Tread Water; China Rises As Copper Crashes To New 6 Year Low

After going nowhere for the past week, last night Chinese equities opened with a bid tone and traded in the green all day long, resulting in the Shanghai composite ending the week with a gain of 2.2%, on what is gradually becoming a replica of US low volume levitation (to be expected after a third of market participants have now […]

It's Bounce Or Else For This Key Stock Market Gauge | Zero Hedge

Via Dana Lyons’ Tumblr,We’ve used much of the space here in the past several weeks pointing out the deteriorating breadth conditions in the U.S. equity market. The trend has been so profound it has now reached the point where it could potentially shift from one of short or intermediate-term relevance to something that might impact the longer-term cyclical bull market. […]

This influential analyst believes the carnage in China's stock market …

Jimmy ChengWhile China’s stock market suffered one of the largest declines on record yesterday, we ain’t seen nothing yet, according to the man who predicted the low point for the Shanghai Composite index in 2013.Tom DeMark, founder Arizona-based DeMark Analytics, believes there’s significant carnage still to come.He’s predicting China’s stock market will decline by an additional 14% over the next […]

Stocks Suffer Worst Week Of Year Amid Biotech Bloodbath, Commodity Carnage, & Bond Buying

This seemed appropriate…But “everything was awesome”?Russell 2000 -3.1% – worst week since Oct 2014 (Bullard)
Dow -2.8% – worst week since Dec 2014
S&P -2.1% – worst week since Jan 2015
Trannies -2.8% – worst week since Mar 2015
Nasdaq -2.2% – worst week since Mar 2015
Who is to blame for all this?Leaving The Dow comfortably red year-to-date…This is notable.. VIX was pressed notably […]

This Is Yellen's Response When Asked If The Fed Is Too Worried …

This is the response that Yellen gives a senator when asked if the Fed is too worried about the stock market.

I would push back against the notion that we are unduly affected by the ups and downs of the stock market, we are certainly very focused on the fundamentals and economic statistics that describe where the economy is in terms […]

Greece Passes The Stress Baton To China

At the risk of being considered a Pollyanna or a perma bull, of which I’m neither, I think we are going up hard soon.  Now I know said the technicals were in the bulls favor after yesterdays bullish reversal, and they were, but then the most advertised and telegraphed Black Swan happened….China.Greece is still front and center and the NYSE […]