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Yesterday's 'dead cat bounce' in FANG stocks has been erased as broad-based weakness stemming from increasing recognition of hawkish central bank chatter is hitting stocks and bonds. Bank stocks bounce after stress test 'success' are saving some indices from bigger losses.

FANG stock erased yesterday's gains...

Bank stocks bounced overnight and remain green but are fading as the day progresses...

All major indices are in the red with The Dow holding up better as Nasdaq is hit hard...

Authored by Dave Forest via OilPrice.com,

South Africa’s chamber of mines officially filed suit this week to block the country’s challenging new mining charter. But elsewhere in the world, some of the biggest investors in natural resources are ramping up their financial commitments — to a new target region for mining and energy deals.

Latin America.

As noted earlier, it was a stronger than expected quarter for the US, in which US households reportedly spent far more than initially estimated, with Real Consumer Spending rising 1.1%, above the 0.6% expected, and contributing 0.75% to the bottom line annualized growth, or just over half the 1.4% GDP print. As Citi commented after the GDP data, "The market didn’t expect this much of a positive revision in the Q1 GDP print; in fact, it didn’t expect a revision at all. We zoom in on the personal consumption print, which has seen an uptick of 0.5% to 1.1%."

As noted earlier, the stocks of both Rite Aid and Fred's are tumbling this morning, after Walgreen's terminated its long-running merger agreement, instead opting to buy over 2,000 RAD stores outright. For those who missed it, here is pain trade for Fred's shareholders this morning...

... and Rite-Aid.

However, besides regular retail and vanilla institutional investors, one class that is being hit especially hard on today's news are hedge funds, who according to Bloomberg own ~32% of Fred’s shares and ~26% of Rite Aid. 

Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com,

Yesterday, in response to alleged “progress” on Obamacare I penned Mish’s Rule of Progress.

Today, I am pleased to announce even more amazing budget progress in the state of Illinois.

First, let’s recap progress at the national level.