Looks like SPY can’t stay above 266. My friend says…

“Banks earned a lot but not from the core business—making loans. Implied volatility of options are looking for a huge move next week. My guess is the sell off continues.”

SM shorts are going to cover into the close

A little surprising but can’t say I blames em’

Kind of agree with R640’s “nothing burger” scenario

I think we’re being subjected to Kabuki 24/7 – none of this stuff is real

I wrote to a friend yesterday…”

Pretty tame

https://www.cftc.gov/dea/futures/deacmxlf.htm

if there’s a half a**ed rally late in the day…the risk is over the weekend that  Syria’s  a nothing burger….

Well soon we may find out what those morons May and Johnson have been up to. The Skripal affair stinks as does Douma.

The Russkies are going way out on a limb saying its false, there are no dead bodies etc, as inspectors will soon be there …

One strange thing was that in front of yr election, the Tories made it clear they supported Hillary, even senior ones like Johnson. Now normally all our pols would say they look fwd to working with whoever wins, even if ideologically, they were Labour and pro Dems, but this made it even stranger as Tories would be pro GoP….so why pro Hillary, breaking all protocol.

Then the dodgy dossier came out and all sorts of rumours that it wasn’t just Steele’s doing, it went way up, all the way up…..Whatever the truth, the idiot May and her fellow cretins have been demonising Vlad 24/7 and after Skripal looking more and more desperate.

Measure Protecting Mueller Is Likely to Pass Committee, Republican Says
Is that supposed to surprise us?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-12/measure-protecting-mueller-from-firing-likely-to-pass-committee

To be even considering him doesn’t say much good about management … 🙂

http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=exk

R640 – concur, whatever happens will be temporary. This is a pretty mellow day with pm’s drifting higher for a change. I’d be happy if we closed right here.

Ipso – dodged a bullet to say the least. The fact that he wouldn’t sign a contract that prohibited protesting doesn’t really help his collusion lawsuit.

The Seattle Seahawks signed career backup quarterback Stephen Morris on Friday after reportedly calling off a recent meeting with Colin Kaepernick because the former San Francisco 49er would not agree to forgo protesting inequality during the national anthem.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5612233/Seahawks-sign-unheralded-backup-QB-passing-Kaepernick-anthem-protests.html

The UK Gov’t is no friend of Trump either – think Christopher Steele

Russia Has “Irrefutable Evidence” UK Staged Syrian Chemical Attack

“We have irrefutable evidence that this was another staged event, and that the secret services of a certain state that is now at the forefront of a Russophobic campaign was involved in this staged event.”

Maybe a little hyperbole at work. He He

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5611565/Semi-infinite-trove-rare-Earth-metals-used-create-high-tech-product-discovered.html

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Those gov’t lap dog bankers running it are always trying to “steer” (guide or control the movement ) Of the Dow SnP rates gold etc. Futures can’t be the majority, and thinly traded. Am I wrong on this?

Your general NEM is really ripping, would love to see it lead the shares higher.

a one day double is sweet

No reason to dump the QID’s yet, they aren’t going against you

Gold Stocks Rally Accelerates

http://www.321gold.com/editorials/sfs/hubbartt041318.html

hard, they could bomb PMs…