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Why does the stock market keep going up?
2009 June 5
| Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin
Posted on 06/05/2009 6:13:30 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
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Someone explain things to me and, yes, I know what the Bible says, but this is all completely crazy.
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
Speculation. Calculated speculation.
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posted on
06/05/2009 6:14:48 AM PDT
by
An.American.Expatriate
(Here's my strategy on the War against Terrorism: We win, they lose. - with apologies to R.R.)
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
You’ve lost your butt but the market is soaring. I don’t understand what you’re saying.
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posted on
06/05/2009 6:15:01 AM PDT
by
LouAvul
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
Shrinkage should mean the survivors are stronger.
To: LouAvul
Shorting stocks and buying Bear ETFs. Oh, skip it.
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posted on
06/05/2009 6:15:48 AM PDT
by
MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
(Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
It is still 5,000 of its high a couple years ago, and is bound to fall back down before this thing is over. It seems to me like a short rally because people sitting on the sidelines were getting back in the market. There are too many closings, cuts, and pay reductions going on to produce a recovery.
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posted on
06/05/2009 6:16:42 AM PDT
by
ilgipper
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
Why does the stock market keep going up?Because PT Barnum was right!
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posted on
06/05/2009 6:17:31 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(USM is Gator Bait! (Congrats to U-Dub!))
To: LouAvul
“Youve lost your butt but the market is soaring. I dont understand what youre saying.”
...because he shorted the market(bet it would go down)
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
-PPT and conspiracy bump-
To be honest, no one knows why the stocks are rebounding. Sure, there are some signs of a recovery, ie Baltic Dry index.
However, the standard method of investing in broad mutual and index funds is a proven, stay the course idea.
I know several money managers how gone fishing until a later date.
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posted on
06/05/2009 6:18:25 AM PDT
by
BGHater
(It's easy to be a Conservative now.)
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
It is the Obama porkulus recession Bubble...
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posted on
06/05/2009 6:19:50 AM PDT
by
philly-d-kidder
(....Nothing is more powerful than a man who prays...(St. John Chrysostom))
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
Betting on deflated Dollars!
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posted on
06/05/2009 6:20:32 AM PDT
by
WellyP
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
...I don’t understand it either...I’m on the sidelines in cash and am reluctant to go back in...I feel this March to June rally is fool’s gold....my nest egg can’t afford another leg down.
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
The market is a leading indicator.
Things are often priced into the market however I believe we simply have no reference for real pain. The WWII generation is the last generation of Americans who actually had to sacrifice and understood true economic hardship. Their roots were in the great depression and they were hit with another wave during WWII. The current American psyche has a limited reference for economic pain so most believe the worst is over. They are all still caught up in the "Hope and Change" mantra.
There may be some positive news here and there however I simply do not see a recovery until mid-2010 at the earliest and believe our reference will be lowered in the next 6 months via rising unemployment, inflation and increased crime.
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posted on
06/05/2009 6:21:13 AM PDT
by
TSgt
(Extreme vitriol and rancorous replies served daily. - Mike W USAF)
To: ilgipper
There are too many closings, cuts, and pay reductions going on to produce a recovery.As of today, I simply don't believe that any more....just don't believe it. Some how they are manipulating things UP.
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posted on
06/05/2009 6:21:18 AM PDT
by
MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
(Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
I believe the market is responding to the coming inflation. It will stop when the market understands there is no future (i.e. profits) in a socialized economy.
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posted on
06/05/2009 6:21:40 AM PDT
by
depressed in 06
(If the government is going to make cars, why not make it a Porsche.)
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
I think the market is being manipulated, and the crash was due to manipulation, too.
Having said that, I know very little about the market. I just have the sense that there are some relatively unknown super powerful people pulling all our strings. I don’t know who they are, but I’m pretty sure they’re not interested in our prosperity or freedom. I’m still wondering if Obama is one of them, or if he’s also a puppet.
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posted on
06/05/2009 6:22:32 AM PDT
by
keats5
(Not all of us are hypnotized.)
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
If you are involved in B2B ventures such as I am on a daily basis, you would have noticed over the last month that things are starting to move again. We were as busy as we ever were at the end of last year, could not keep up. Then, everything came to an absolute dead stop in January. Nobody was moving, sitting on their budgets out of fear. Now, things have picked up dramatically since they now have to spend their budgets yet this year.
I realize that my market segment may be an anomaly, but that is absolutely what I am seeing. If we maintain this for another month or two, we will get everything back to prior levels and carry on.
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posted on
06/05/2009 6:22:40 AM PDT
by
cspackler
(There are 10 kinds of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don't.)
To: philly-d-kidder
Why?
1. It fell further than needed based on emotional panic.
2. The Fed began giving banks 0% money to loan, and it made them look solvent. Fed money always makes things go up for awhile.
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
pre-market futures are surging...up 120 points!
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
Because the dollar keeps going down. If a dollar becomes worth a nickel, then a dollar’s worth of stocks will become worth $20.
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posted on
06/05/2009 6:24:47 AM PDT
by
P-Marlowe
(LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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