Stocks & Bonds Dumped-n-Pumped As Powell Promises ‘Moar’

Another day, another chaotic roller-coaster in the thing we call a stock market as Powell’s incessant promises of “moar” of “whatever it takes” is all that’s needed now…

And Bonds followed a similar path… puking into the open, then aggressively bid as Powell plugged more holes with his bond-buying bonanza…

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“…either they buy… or fucking die…”

Small Caps were the big winners on the day as Nasdaq lagged (but everything was panic bid after the initial dump)…

Interestingly there was a lot of chatter on Cathie Wood buying TSLA in size yesterday, but despite the machines’ best efforts, ARKK ended lower again…

Beginning at around 0800ET, bonds and stocks were both dumped hard, but as Powell began his semi-annual testimony around 1000ET, bonds and stocks were both simultaneously bid…

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All of which has the smell of some serious activity in Risk-Parity funds, and we see echoes of this…

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Meanwhile, GME exploded higher today..

AMC also rose as the original WSB Short-Squeeze basket surged after an ugly two days…

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Momentum was mashed again today

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It was an ugly day for bonds overall, but could have been seriously uglier…’

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30Y Real Yields jumped to its highest since March, taking out the June spike…

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The dollar pumped-n-dumped, mirroring stocks and bonds…

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WTI continued its charge higher, breaking above $63 despite a surprise build in crude and gasoline…

Gold clung to $1800…

Bitcoin bounced back above $50k on Square’s headlines but was unable to hold it…

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Finally, after suffering its biggest outflow on record yesterday (and biggest dollar volume day ever), the big question on everyone’s lips is ‘What Will Cathie Wood Do?’

Source: Bloomberg