The stock market’s party is getting louder on news that the U.S. and China are talking about trade.
And more Champagne is being poured even as the unemployment rate rose to 14.7% in April, as reported Friday. Why is the market seemingly celebrating the loss of jobs? For answers, please see “Why it’s not so crazy that stocks are rising even though 26 million people are out of work.”
Investors are too drunk to notice that the fed funds futures rate has gone negative. This contradicts the “V”-shape-economic-rebound elixir that the stock market is drunk on. Furthermore, it could foreshadow really bad things to come. Let’s explore with the help of two charts.
Two charts
Please click here for an annotated chart of the Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF DIA which tracks the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA.
Please click here for an annotated chart of January fed funds futures.
Note the following:
• The first chart gives a long-term perspective.
• The first chart shows that after touching the top band of the “mother of support zones,” the stock market is threatening to break above the low band of the resistance zone. From a technical perspective, this is normal behavior. However, when you take into account the overall economic picture and fundamentals, it is a different story.
• The second chart shows that January fed funds futures have gone negative. A value above 100 indicates negative rates.
• As a note of caution, the Federal Reserve has not announced negative interest rates at this time. Futures simply indicate expectations by the market that the Fed will announce negative interest rates by January.
• In our analysis at The Arora Report, calling negative interest rates “evil” is not too strong a word.
• Japan and Europe already have negative interest rates. Have you taken a look at the perpetual anemic growth rates in Japan and Europe? In our analysis, those economies are decaying. In contrast, the U. S. has vigor and the potential for strong growth. Hopefully our leaders will realize that negative interest rates in Europe and Japan have failed and will stay away from them. But hope is not a good investment strategy. Investors should, for the first time in history, start considering a scenario of negative interest rates in the U.S.
• Gold might be the primary beneficiary. Keep an eye on gold ETF GLD, silver ETF SLV and gold miner ETF GDX. Leveraged gold ETFs such as NUGT and DUST will likely provide many short-term trading opportunities….Read more at MarketWatch.
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