There was some confusion for those trading yesterday's first session of the year, which started off in euphoric fashion with the Dow Jones printing once again just shy of 20,000, then slumped after crude inexplicably tumbled, prompting even JPMorgan to chime in with the following snyde commentary: "the question isn’t why stocks have come in from their highs but instead why they were so strong to begin with."
Following another day of upbeat economic data, with growing signs that inflation on both sides of the Atlantic is accelerating, investors rediscovered their faith in the Trumpflation rally, pushing global stocks and US equity futures higher, fuelling a second day of 2017 equity gains ahead of today's release of the Fed's December minutes.
Confused by today's sudden intraday reversal in risk assets, which pulled the Dow Jones from up over 160 to barely in the green, while slamming Crude from up over 2% on the day to red?
You are not alone: as JPM's Adam Crisafulli opines in his intraday "market update" note, "the question isn’t why stocks have come in from their highs but instead why they were so strong to begin with."
From JPMorgan:
In the West Junk Information And Junk Judgment Prevail
Paul Craig Roberts
Rumors of the Trumpflation rally's death have been greatly exagerated, and not only is the Dow 20,000 back on the radar, following a 124 point surge in Dow futures, bringing the "key psychological level" back within 100 points, but European stocks rose for a third day and entered a bull market, rising 20% from theor lows set last February, following strong Chinese manufacturing and services PMI data, both of which ended 2016 on robust notes well inside expansion territory.