The Dow at a 2-year high: can it last?

Last updated on: November 3, 2010 at 6:23 pm by Lynn Hayes

The Dow at a 2-year high: can it last? 2010-11-03T18:23:13-04:00 Lynn Hayes

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Wall Street loves a good Republican victory, and yesterday the financial press said that the market was up in anticipation of the Republicans taking the House. Today the story was that a market reached a new high after the Federal Reserve decided to buy up $600 billion in Treasury securities.

Deborah at Wall Street Weather called this last week in her “Trick or Treat edition” and explained why it won’t work:

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Halloween is all about all kinds of terrifying creatures, ghosts and zombies (the living dead) roaming around. And what’s truly “unbelievably terrifying” to quote GMO’s Jeremy Grantham’s “Night of the Living Fed” is that every voting member of the FOMC has become a zombie except Thomas Hoenig.

The Fed acts like zombies because they continue to do the same thing over and over again. Fed Chairman Bernanke’s mentor is “Chief Zombie” Alan Greenspan who taught him that when one bubble bursts, another one needs to be conjured to create the “wealth effect.” In addition to promising near zero interest rates for an “extended period,” the Fed talks of the treats of QE2 and inflation targeting, so that all that debt (Scorpio/Pluto) left over from when the last bubble burst just over one Mars cycle (2 years) ago becomes cheaper to service.

The Fed wants investors to become zombies like them, under the illusion that reflating asset prices makes investors feel wealthier so they’re more likely to spend and employers are more likely to hire and grow their businesses. As PIMCO’s Bill Gross writes in his latest Investment Outlook: “The Fed, on Wednesday, however, will decide that it is better to keep the patient on life support with an adrenaline injection and a following morphine drip than to risk its demise and ultimate rebirth in another form.”

By trying to spare the economy from Pluto/Scorpio’s death and dying process that will take place one way or another over anyway, the Fed is only prolonging the pain at best and at worst runs the risk of keeping the economy in a zombie-like state for the next several years. Wall St. knows another round of quantitative easing won’t work, but they’ve become too addicted to the Fed’s drugs. That’s why the lead story in Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal hinting that QE2 could be much less than what the market was anticipating was enough to give the market pause. Imagine how the market might react if Bernanke was bluffing.

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This is what I’ve been saying too, and with Jupiter and Uranus moving ever closer to their conjunction right around New Year’s the euphoria is likely to continue to drive an optimistic market.

Pluto is still in Capricorn until 2023, making a crash to reality virtually assured at some point. The markets can probably ride on pure euphoria through the end of the year which may generate enough momentum to push the economy forward so that the markets are standing on solid ground instead of mere optimism. Saturn stations retrograde in late January, inspiring a re-evaluation of our reality, and shortly thereafter Venus enters Capricorn and squares Saturn. These are not highly positive signatures for economic expansion.

This is not financial advice, but if it was I might consider this to be a good time for stock investing, keeping in mind that as long as Pluto is in Capricorn caution is advised. I would probably mark the mid-January period to sell anything that doesn’t have very strong fundamentals as there are some signatures in February that look problematic for financial decisions.

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