Although I'll be the first to admit that I'm not quite sure what to do with this information, I wanted to share a chart that illustrates how the Euro and US equities have recently totally detached from one another.
For a long while, these two were so much in lockstep that we might as well have just shut down one of them, since there was no point in having a clone. (Below the black line graph and right scale are for the Euro, and the blue line graph is the ESU2).
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Just over the past week or so, these markets have had a nasty argument and parted ways. Regretably for the bears, it seems that strength in the Euro still flows instantly to stocks (witness last Friday's Euro-gasm), but an event like this morning (in which the Euro was down about 2% from Tuesday's pre-holiday close) barely caused the US stock market to even blink.
My bearishness on the Euro is as strong as ever, but I must say, the resilience of US stocks in the face of continuing Euro weakness (which has more than wiped out the entirety of last week's Euro rally) is troubling.
