What Rout? Stocks Have Best Day In A Year

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Since 13 minutes after the US equity market opened, the NYSE was broken for 150 symbols from AAPL to XIV (inverse VIX). KO, MCD, & IBM all fell notably on earnings. Credit, Treasuries, and JPY carry all traded ‘risk-off’. But none of that mattered…broken markets and ECB rumors were all that was needed – Nasdaq soared by most in 2014 today, extending its 3-day swing to the best since Dec 2011. Despite USDollar strength (driven by EUR weakness), commodities all rallied with Copper and oil best (WTI >$83 again) but volatility in crude was significant. Treasury yields were mixed (flat to 5Y, 2-3bps 10Y & 30Y). VIX was smashed briefly to a 15 handle (down over 50% from its peak last week). Trannies are up almost 8% from Bullard’s “QE4″ comment last week… normal? Volume was dismally below average.

This post was published at Zero Hedge on 10/21/2014.