Have a pleasant holiday, everyone. See you for the shortened session Friday morning.
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Yellen Responds as a Central Banker Would
By Biiwii
Let’s try to untangle the web of Fed-speak going on here. “Reality” for our purposes is defined as my opinion, obviously.
Yellen Defends Seven Years of Low Interest Rates in Letter to Nader
Fed-Speak:
Warning that “an overly aggressive increase in rates would at most benefit savers only temporarily,” she argued in the letter released Monday in Washington that the Fed’s seven-year era of zero rates had sheltered American savers from dramatic declines in the value of their homes and retirement accounts.
Reality: (more…)
Harry Boxer’s Charts of the Day
Holiday Tape
The last two cycle trend days both delivered. There is a third this week on Friday but the volume will be very low and I’m doubtful about any decent trending move. We may well not see much in the way of any moves on the equity indices before next week now.
The retracement on SPX stopped just short of a test of the important 50 hour MA. As long as that holds the uptrend is intact. If that breaks then there is a nice looking pattern setup to retest the 2043 area. Resistance is at the current high at 2097. If we see a decent break above we should see a test of 2116 next. SPX 60min chart:
Miners Need to Cross This Barrier
