VIEW FROM THE JUNKYARD!
Weekends come and go and these days those are the only 2 days we don't lose money. Sunday at mass we offer prayers for the economy! Sunday family gatherings include discussions of government conspiracy; of those magical 5 guys in a room smoking cigars who intentionally drove oil prices to 140 and then with equal intent drove them back down to 60. Suck are weekends these days. Monday mornings come with futures showing 200 point down opens.
We're trying to carve out a trading bottom in here but it seems like we are destined to sweat out another trip down into the abyss first. We have to hold in here because if we break here then the markets are telegraphing that we are headed for a severe economic recession that will last for a long time. Maybe we will cascade into that elusive final capitulation...or not...who knows.Rick Santelli on Friday evening put up a chart of junk bond yields sitting somewhere just under 20%. And then it hit me. That is what MLPS have become. Most are now trading at "junk" status and a few are yielding at "garbage" status.
Candlestick fans can see that doji hammer from last Thursday which is a bullish formation. It has not been undone by Friday's mess as we finished with just a 1 point loss.News this morning as Crosstex LP (XTEX) and Crosstex (XTXI) announce a sale of a non strategic asset. When you need to raise money...everything becomes "non strategic".
No other corporate developemests so far and nothing yet on the upgrade downgrade list.
Over the weekend i posted some changes. From here on if you want to post on the blog you will need to log in with some sort of id. All opinions are welcome and encouraged to be shared. But there is no reason here to hide behind a door in order to speak freely. This may result in few posters which will be disappointing but so be it!
Cold weather here in the Northeast for the whole week ahead and into next weekend. Should be supportive for nat gas and perhaps heating oil. Might be a driver for crude down the road but the cracking economy continues to be the primary driver of energy prices.
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2 comments:
Stocks were always considereded "junk" compared to bonds.
What "fooled" us was the notion that a 7% ( or more )rising distro ( annually increased by 3-7%), would trump any "reasonable' macro forces.
What the market is telling us is there is no substitute for Treasuries... not MLPs, not preferreds, and not corporate bonds.
I just looked at the dia chart from Friday.
It peaked at 89.42 at 3:16.
44 minutes later it dropped an amazing 4.22 points (= to 400+ Dow points ) or 4.719%!
As I type it's trading in the premarket for 83.60 or a further drop of .62 points.
One would think that drop the last 46 minutes of Friday's seesion was a mite excessive ( many might not want to hold positions over the weekend ), and after the MMs rape the early sellers, we might see some attempt to stabilize things.
HS
HS, I suspect treasuries are the default "currency" only because there is no such alternative as an anti-investment. In other words, there is global indescriminate selling of all asset classes and the short end of treasuries is the beneficiary. But I don't think it's because investors see value there; rather it represents perceived relative safety and liquidity. Not so with long term treauries, to wit last week's disappointing 30-year auction results.
In my view, MLPs are being sold off just as indecriminately as everything else. I think we all spend a lot of time trying to make rational sense of this market and therein lies the problem: irrational behavior has it's roots in emotion so trying to understand it will drive you nuts. A look at the AMZ chart for just about any period since all this panic selling started looks a hellovalot like the S&P chart. It won't reverse until the last weak-knee'd investor cries 'uncle.'
Anyway, I'm just waxing on here because it's theraputic for me as I watch my net worth vanish into thin air...
Lee
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