Next victim LEHMAN??? AUTSCH … stock plummeted today close to 50% on a lot of fear, that Lehman might follow Bear Stearns … Problem … Lehman’s management is convinced that they don’t have to sell “cheap” BUT … even cheap … no one is interested … So … C’mon Hank … do it again … [...]

They really have done it … the FED and its friends will virtually take over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac … this is HALF the U.S. mortgage market … WOW … we talk here about 8 TRILLION DOLLARS … What will happen now??? First: ALL TRUST in the U.S. Government and the FED should be [...]

Not much to say … holiday around the globe and FED, ECB and BoE spreading their “wisdom” this week … YAWN The only … possible, but improbable … surprise could be AUSTRALIA … they COULD … L O W E R rates All the rest should stick to the current levels … ECB sounding hawkish, [...]

Pull all strings FED made it possible … the market survived another month even bouncing And still in bouncing mode … despite bad GNP figures out of the US today … It is still an uphill battle, but we should see new highs … S&P above 1291 … DAX above 6616 After running out of [...]

As the bounce keeps going … FED prolongs its “flooding” of the market with liquidity until Jan. 31st, 2009 So, we have Govt. guaranteed banks for 6 more months … at least. After Merill Lynch threw in the towel by selling their “toxic waste” … who is next … and what will be the next [...]

As expected a short-sighted vote for unchanged today … I don’t like the statement at all … as it is too dovish to curb inflation and at best naive … as it talks about growth “revival” Markets reaction is so far split … advantage bears. It will be interesting to see tomorrow, how the investors [...]

Again we play “Waiting on the FED” … but something is different … This time markets only stop to fall … they don’t rise … The FED’s decision is said to be “UNCHANGED”. Bad enough … Inflation is accelerating and the FED is weaponless as the economy weakens further and the banks and financials are [...]

ECB and FED are afraid … they talked the truth … at least a bit … The market reacted … that made them scared … them, the stupid cheerleading manipulators Now they start again talking markets up … – We said SMALL rate hikes only – We are in NO HURRY to hike – We [...]