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And your post-Doha gains are... gone...

One of the more confusing market moves in recent weeks has been the tremendous surge in transportation, or as we call them trannies, stocks...

... even as underlying fundamentals have continued to steadily deteriorate.

After meandering steadily higher for the past week, and completely ignoring the negative newsflow out of the Doha meeting, today oil took an unexpected leg lower to 4-day lows, leaving many stumped: what caused this drop?

The answer, according to Citi, is the realization Saudi Arabia is actually making good on its threat to boost production (recall that just one day ahead of Doha, Saudi deputy crown prince bin Salman said he could add a million barrels immediately) something we noted a month ago in "Why Saudi Arabia Has No Intention To End The Oil Glut."

Submitted by Simon Black via SovereignMan.com,

My grandfather was something of a Renaissance Man.

He was a farmer, schoolteacher, fisherman, collector, real estate investor… and one of those guys who always seemed to know how to do everything.

He could take apart an engine, build a house with his bare hands, tame wild horses, treat life-threatening wounds, play the guitar… and he was extremely well respected in his community.

Bloomberg's Richard Breslow, former FX trader and fund manager who now comments on markets, has been on a roll lately. One week ago, he officially lost it, going on an epic rant how central banks have devastated "markets" with their constant intervention (proven yet again with today's report that the BOJ now is a Top 10 owner of 90% of Japanese stocks): "You don’t need to be a Taleb or Mandelbrot to calculate that we have been having once in a hundred year events on a regular basis for the last thirty years" he raged.