Last week, the U.S. equity market got a short-lived relief
from Bernanke's less hawish comments and then continued its
sell-offs.
My take-away was that the market first took his comments
for granted and expected that core CPI should be weakening
if the economy slowed down ahead. But some market economists
suspected whether this had to be true....they worry that if the
economy does not slow down enough,the core CPI would not be
weakening as expected in the near future.
Therefore, the market started to worry the current
slowing-down in sight may not garantee the
Fed's pause anytime soon.....that's why the market sold off again on
Thursday and Friday, to escape the overshooting senario.
Looks like the hedge fund worlds are screamingly shorting the U.S.
equity market and they are expecting a big crash sooner rather than
later.
Is cash the king right now? Or shall we look forward to futhre flight
to quality?