Major global markets largely continued their decline on China and oil collapse fears Monday,although US stock exchanges were closed for the Martin Luther King,Jr. Day holiday.The one exception was the Shanghai Composite Index,which rose 0.47%.The Japanese Nikkei slumped 1.45%,approaching bear territory along with the Australian ASX.The Hong Kong HSI tumbled 1.45%.In Europe,the German DAX fell 0.25%,,while the London FTSE dropped 0.42% and the Paris CAC 40 lost 0.49%.In the commodities space,light sweet crude was down 1.63% and Brent lost 0.55% in anticipation of Iranian production re-entering the market.Natural gas was cheered,however,by the arctic outbreak sweeping into the US East Coast,rising to 2.124,up 1.14%.Gold was virtually flat at 1088.90 an ounce,just a hair down at -0.17%;but silver climbed to 13.94,or 0.32%.
I think there's much more to go,said Bill Fleckenstein,president of Fleckenstein Capital.My real fear is,there's going to be a dislocation,when the market breaks hard and fast.So far this year,it's been sort of a rolling dislocation.I think it's entirely possible to take out the lows of last summer,accelerate and go lower until such time as the Fed panics.*
Intel has been held up by slowing data centre growth.They've got tons of capacity in the place.If people start to waffle over growth,they'll really be in trouble.The world economy is weak.It's a very potent mix and the Fed can't help unless the market goes much lower-so guess what?The market's going much lower.This is much worse than a market correction.I think all these things are in a feedback loop and it's going to get much worse,Mr.Fleckenstein warned.*
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