Friday, January 15, 2016

What Makes this Bear Market Systematic?

Oil:
Oil typically pumps stocks up as does a tax rate decrease.    In today's market however this does not seem the case.    Saudi continued dumping and producers slower than slow drop in production have created a downward pressure that shows no signs of relief except for maybe small market bounces here and there.   This could get really concerning if the Saudi plan works and 1/3 of US producers go under in the next year or so.   Banks do hold a lot of the bad debt coming from these bankruptcies. 

FED Rate Hikes:
Suggested that there would be another 4 hikes this year.    FAT CHANCE given the current market.   So one should probably expect no rate hike in the next 6 months.   This will not like get systemic, but will lower P/E ratios over time on rate hike at a time.

China:
Any good news from China will be great!   We cant have any more ghost city being built any more however.   Also, given their market has been artificially pumped up for over a year and at the same time GDP has been cut drastically there seems to be plenty of downside available.  

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