This has the look and feel of an 'official rally' to create the appearance of enthusiam for Gordon Brown's bid to save the world.
Do not get in its way while it is in progress. Buying of the SP futures led us higher yesterday, with the Nasdaq 100 confirming with its own breakout attempt.
Jobs Report tomorrow is key.
We would rather miss a portion of a move than be early and suffer losses and exhaustion by fighting the tape.
Potential near failure points are at 1312 for the NDX futures and 842 for the SP futures.
Longer term nothing has changed. The real economy is paper thin, the paper being supplied by the US dollar and the monetization of debt to create the appearance of vitality.
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.” Marcus Tullius Cicero