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Archive for April 9th, 2008

Bear market structure …

Mittwoch, April 9th, 2008

If you want to see a real bear market structure … Today we had a perfect example in the US market: Ahead of the open … NEWS … at first sight positive, but a non-event … today we had the Citibank “news” and the Mortgage applications. WHY? To start selling from a higher level … [...]

Citibank … market’s misinterpretation?

Mittwoch, April 9th, 2008

Citibank is close to announce the sale of around 12bln$ of debt. This is seen as positive and bullish … hmmmm My take: 1. This is buy-out related debt, NOT mortgage related … so they sell “better” debt 2. They lock in a loss … and free as it is leveraged debt only a small [...]