The market went out on its highs suggesting that we will get a strong opening tomorrow for the FOMC announcement at 2:15 PM EDT.
As a reminder, this Friday is the 'triple witching' option expiration. The markets are frequently volatile as the big players squeeze the overleveraged option speculators.
Adobe reports tonight after the bell.
To say that the better-than-expected housing start numbers ignited hopes for the economy and triggered today's rally is ludicrous rationalization.
This was a short squeeze for option expiry week, pure and simple.
Alcoa and Nucor announcements show how dire the economic situation has become.
“Thus, it should be understood that when pro-US figures use the term, 'rules-based international order,' they are not referring to anything analogous to the rule of law. Quite the opposite, they are using Orwellian language to describe a system in which essentially no rules can be established and/or observed, given that the dominant state has the prerogative to violate and/or rewrite “rules” at its whim.” Aaron Good, American Exception