Thursday, February 21, 2013

Stocks Clawing Back Despite Rising Unemployment Claims

Last week's low-ball unemployment claims were revised higher this morning, bringing them back closer to the moving averages, and today's claims were nothing to celebrate, either. Despite that, stocks are climbing at this moment, striving to get back to flat after a night of significant declines. Wall St figures that bad news is good news because the Fed just has to monetize still more debt if things are bad and getting worse.

The temporary downturn a few bars from the right represent the market reaction to this mornings unemployment claims news. It appears that Wall St now reads bad news... as good news!