Yesterday was a big of a shakeout.
The fact is that the Fed balance sheet has flatlined since mid-May. The Fed claims that it is providing $120 billion in liquidity per month… but in reality this has NOT been the case for two to three months.
Stocks, which were extremely overbought going into this week, woke up to this fact yesterday with the first round of intense selling we’ve seen in weeks.
Every major index finished the day down. The extremely popular FANG stocks were liquidated.
Do not count on this trend continuing. The Fed or whoever is rigging the market, will be back to work shortly…
The fact is that since the market bottom, the FANG stocks have done almost all the heavy lifting, holding the rest of the market up for months.
Even with their recent correction, they’ve more than TRIPLED the performance of the S&P 500 from the March lows.
Put another way, time and again, no matter how overbought they became, the big FANG stocks continue to rally higher and higher, driven by “someone” who seemed hellbent on insuring the market didn’t collapse again.
Why were companies outperforming/rallying so much?
Because the large tech stocks (Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Facebook) are where central banks are buying.
Together these companies account for nearly 20% of the stock market. And if central banks can get them to rally, the rest of the market will follow.
Put another way, if you were going to rig the market, these are the companies you’d be buying.
And with the same stocks moving higher day after day like clockwork, it’s pretty clear it’s central banks doing the buying.
We know the Swiss National bank buys these companies. And I strongly suspect the Fed is doing it to via some backdoor method.
Regardless of who is doing the buying, “someone” is ramping the market using these companies. And very likely they will continue to do so no matter what.
At the end of the day, it all boils down to what I’ve been saying since 2017… that the Fed and other central banks are trapped in a vicious cycle through which it INTENTIONALLY creates bubbles to deal with each successive bust.
We had the Tech Bubble in the ’90s.
The Housing Bubble in the mid-00s.
And now the Everything Bubble in 2020.
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Best Regards
Graham Summers
Chief Market Strategist
Phoenix Capital Research
