[expat_panama]

	Markets		Past Trades		Ahead
	metals		Solid on new base, currently @ $1,265.20 and $17.40		trending up w/ futures +0.11
	stocks		NASDAQ and S&P500 punching back up over the 50-day MA in higher volume		mixed/off, overall -0.06%

News:

• No Wonder Investors Are Tuning Out the Fed - Caroline Baum, E21.com
• O's Budget Would Put a 67% Tax Rate on Economy - Jeff Dorfman, Forbes
• Barack Obama's Assault On Capital - Jeremy Warner, The Telegraph
• House Votes to Fully Repeal Obamacare, 239-186

Threads:

• Huff Post Panics Over "Anti-American" Profits
• GALLUP: "The Big Lie: 5.6% Unemployment"
• Manufacturing drops 3.4% in December, global demand falling
• Moribund RadioShack prepares to pull plug; NYSE suspends trading

[abb]

The “experts” are saying the oil bump is the classic “dead cat bounce.”

Who knows?

But I still have some dry powder in case another buying opportunity presents itself.