While the focus in the overnight session has traditionally been about two things, namely oil and China, today one can also throw in AAPL which is down 4% in the pre-market after its disappointing earnings yesterday in which it confirmed our channel-checked warnings about China from last summer, and the Fed which is set to release the January FOMC statement this afternoon.
Crude is contained...
But Reuters summed it up nicely...
China carnaged overnight...
Ben Bernanke is no longer the Fed's chairman, but this article is even more relevant today then it was when I wrote it in August 2013.
Ben Bernanke: Buy One Suit, Get Three Free
By Vitaliy Katsenelson, CFA
We have to thank Benjamin Bowler: one month ago Bank of America's "equity-linked analyst" (aka derivatives guy) was the first honest sellside banker to demonstrate, vividly and in no uncertain terms and with lovely charts to boot, how the Fed's "massive manipulation" broke the market. We urge anyone who missed it the first time, to reread his piece from late December (it can be found here) because it summarizes in a few paragraphs about 7 years worth of posts from this website.
Submitted by C. Jay Engel via The Mises Institute,
There are a handful of themes out there on recent market action that are either totally wrong or otherwise highly misleading. For instance, regarding the recent calamity in the capital markets, one especially apparent dichotomy has presented itself as offering two choices as to what, exactly, is causing the painful turbulence.