For one of the most ridiculous market charts in world history, go to www.nasdaq.com and click on "DJIA." Market is underwater until moments before the FOMC's announcement, then shoots up over 220 points. Looks like a chart from a movie I saw one time, "The Three Stooges Visit Wall Street." Bottom line of the Fed's announcement was that it would raise rates, but not before June, and maybe not until September. Stock market interpreted this as "Pour more PGA in the punch bowl" so stocks shot up. Dollar index interpreted this as "Dollar interest rate not going higher soon," & so shot down. Bond prices took it as "Lower interest rates for a while" and so yields shot up while prices shot down (they always move opposite to each other. It's mathematical." Dollar sank, so silver & gold shot up. Daddurn! There was a lotta shootin' goin' on! Listen to me: this is dumb, dumb, dumb. This is not investing, not an economy, not even a casino, unless it would be a rigged casino. The end of this is grief, wailing, weeping, & gnashing of teeth. When things don't make sense, it's usually because -- they don't make sense. At today's low the Dow stood at 17,697.52, 378.67 points LOWER than 18,076.19 where it closed. That was a rally -- all after 2:00 p.m. -- that took the Dow up today 227.11 or 1.27%. S&P500 rose 25.22 or 1.22% to 2,099.50 Gold rose, too, but later in the day but weren't as manic as stocks. Dow in Gold closed at G$324.55 gold dollars (15.70 troy ounces). Silver poked thru the upper gator jaw to S$1,503.84 silver dollars (1,163.13 troy ounces). Either this rise will end soon, or it will invalidate the gator jaws. Y'all know what I expect. US dollar Index fell off a cliff, down, down, down 185 basis points (1.85%) a huge move. That should begin a correction of at least a couple of weeks, but gives no sign yet it will do more than routinely correct. Clearly, the Fed wants the dollar lower and today was the first shot of the jawbone in talking it down. The moribund euro -- clumsy, hapless oaf of scrofulous fiat currencies -- shot up out of its sub-cellar dungeon and actually closed up 2.52% at $108.63. That was not enough to clear the downtrend line or the 20 DMA, but it did punch into the 20 DMA before selling much lower. Probably hath turned cloudward for a while. Yen gained 1.04% to 83.28. Above 20 DMA, rangebound. BoJ probably likes it that way. Bond prices rose sharply, pulling yields down. US 10 year treasury note yield lost 5.2% to 1.951%. Below 50 DMA. Oooooo. West Texas Intermediate Crude jumped a meaty 9.955 to close at $46.65/barrel. Working on a bottom. If I tell y'all gold & silver's closes, y'all will think nothing happened today, but that's because the Comex closes trading in them at 1:30 Eastern. Thus they closed virtually unchanged, silver down 3.7 cents to 1552.5c & gold up $3.10 to 1,151.40. But lo & behold, came the FOMC announcement and both -- I won't say it again -- rocketed. Gold ended the day at $1,168.70, up 1.8% or $20.40 from yesterday's Comex close. Siler ended at 1602c, up 45.8 cents or 2.9% from yesterday's Comex. Gold shot away from that shoulder support line & toward its upper downtrend channel line. It has certainly turned around for a while, but that turnaround must pass the test Gold failed in January at $1,308. Today turned up most momentum and trend indicators. Gold silver ratio ended at 74.08, lower but not yet ideal. Siler ricocheted from the bottom of that falling wedge to the top side, but didn't quite break through. Looks stronger than gold, & both silver & gold should continue higher tomorrow. Silver's re-test comes at January's 1850c high. Big news today is a new report that links long breastfeeding to higher IQ and even higher income. Study followed children all the way to age 30. Wow. 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Argentum et aurum comparanda sunt —
Silver and gold must be bought.
— Franklin Sanders, The Moneychanger
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