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Strategies & Market Trends : Booms, Busts, and Recoveries -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: pezz who wrote (29967)	3/24/2003 12:26:52 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

The market will not tolerate bad news or failure in the adventure. The spat of good (or "good") news of the launching of the invasion, did great for the market last week. Any piece of negative news will send gold, oil up and equities down. Hence the news have to sanitized before publishing. Not as much to demoralize the enemy but not to scare the market. The Iraqi propaganda is of another sort. It is to show that they are determined to let blood flow, which is exactly what the families of the soldiers don't want to read. The capture -and later display- of some support troops achieved that. And next they are trying to get pictures of shot down planes and invaders' pilots to support their propaganda cause in the CNN of the Arab world a.k.a Al Jazeera. I expect, if things really turn to the worse, the US to run down Al-Jazeera by any means of jamming or shutting transponders down if at all technically feasible. SUMMARIZING: Two pressure groups can make the war stops: Investors sing equities going to the cellar of the earth worm and oil price going through the roof. US public pressure after seeing sheer killing after led to believe it will be just bombs and planes flying and achieving easy and quick victory.