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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (428609)	3/11/2015 1:56:08 PM
From: Trumptown	Respond to of 436258

Wow...guess thats the new norm...but I will say that last time the dollar spiked and pulled back around January 22nd, stocks sold off pretty good... With the dollar looking like another spike with stocks selling off, the dip could go quite a bit deeper... At the moment cash is good...

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (428609)	3/11/2015 2:13:09 PM
From: MythMan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

>>Since Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda took office in March 2013 and introduced monetary easing of what he called a “different dimension,” the central bank has sharply increased its buying of baskets of stocks known as exchange-traded funds. By directly underpinning the market, officials have tried to encourage private investors to follow suit and put more money in stocks in the hope of stimulating the economy and increasing inflation.<< This is pure bullchit thinking....whatever happened to fiscal stimulus? >>During the past two years, the central bank entered the stock market roughly once every three days, picking up a total of ¥2.8 trillion ($23 billion) of ETFs that track Japan’s major stock indexes, according to Bank of Japan records. That distinguishes it from the U.S. Federal Reserve and European Central Bank, both of which have bought bonds to pump up the economy but haven’t directly bought stocks.<< I think that comment is bullchit too. Fed buys futes etc.