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There is a change in sentiment as traders are trying to get their hands around the extent of the slowdown in global growth.
New issues for the market:
--global growth slowing
--poor guidance from Oracle[ORCL
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--sector weakness spreads beyond financials & autos
At the same time, some old issues won't go away:
--housing bottom uncertain, as indicated by Lennar's[LEN
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--oil & dollar not moving in right direction.
--endless cutting of estimates for financials
Of the issues the market has addressed today, slower global growth is a particular concern. Oshkosh[OSK
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On top of the slowing growth issue, we have central banks raising rates in all the markets where growth is occurring, particularly emerging markets, which is adding fuel to the fire.
Bottom line is traders are confused. The market is messing with their heads:
1) blue chips dropping 3-5% a day? What's cheap anymore? They don't know.
2) traders complain stocks are oversold, but they are not Oversold, they're Underowned. No one wants them right now, which makes cash attractive.
Dow will close at a 52-week low, but that is not the big issue is the closing low in March for the S&P 500, 1273, we are not far from that now.
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