U.S. stock futures were shooting up even before the job reports had hit markets, give credit to Jeffrey Lacker, the Fed president from Richmond, who made a statement about not tapering or stopping QE3 stimulus as growth is still weak.
Free liquidity is not going to stop! = Markets jumped .
So, earlier the Fed warned about tapering and stopping QE3 and world markets slumped, now various officials of the Fed are telling about not stopping QE3 and world markets are rallying.
Hmmm.. I think it would be better if instead of economic reports, we are given The Fed statements for the day every day before the opening bell so well know which way to trade.
Funny part is, Mr. Lacker has been very vocal against the stimulus earlier, now he is advocating it!
What is more,
he does not have a voting right in the FOMC so basically, he is free to express any opinion and it will not matter when the Fed has to take a decision about tapering/ not tapering. Much like our SBI chief Pratip chowdhury.
In essence, the Fed is just throwing markets some breadcrumbs so as to stop a bigger fall. Once markets regain some balance, someone from the Fed will again drop tapering bomb and markets may start sliding again.