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still_one

(98,883 posts) Sun Dec 2, 2018, 09:21 PM Dec 2018

Futures are up big. The press is reporting Trump and China agree to intensify trade talks

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-02/traders-cast-wary-eye-toward-2019-as-trump-and-xi-agree-on-truce?srnd=premium

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Futures are up big. The press is reporting Trump and China agree to intensify trade talks (Original Post) still_one Dec 2018 OP

let's all praise drumpf for putting things back the way they were after fucking them up............. Takket Dec 2018 #1

Yeah... but they've still turned the market into one big pump and dump scheme. The crash is still Squinch Dec 2018 #2

sure it is, but this is not based on any agreement except that they will continue talking still_one Dec 2018 #4

Yep. And today the market is all giddy about it. Squinch Dec 2018 #5

ISM index rose to 59.3 from 57.7 but DJIA are now 120pts down from opening high Roland99 Dec 2018 #6

And I'm sure all of Trump's buddies were positioned to make a killing in the market on this news. TheBlackAdder Dec 2018 #3

Takket

(23,646 posts)

1. let's all praise drumpf for putting things back the way they were after fucking them up.............

Reply to still_one (Original post)

Sun Dec 2, 2018, 09:29 PM

Dec 2018

Squinch

(59,254 posts)

2. Yeah... but they've still turned the market into one big pump and dump scheme. The crash is still

Reply to still_one (Original post)

Sun Dec 2, 2018, 09:36 PM

Dec 2018

hanging over us.

still_one

(98,883 posts)

4. sure it is, but this is not based on any agreement except that they will continue talking

Reply to Squinch (Reply #2)

Mon Dec 3, 2018, 12:39 AM

Dec 2018

Squinch

(59,254 posts)

5. Yep. And today the market is all giddy about it.

Reply to still_one (Reply #4)

Mon Dec 3, 2018, 10:15 AM

Dec 2018

Roland99

(53,345 posts)

6. ISM index rose to 59.3 from 57.7 but DJIA are now 120pts down from opening high

Reply to Squinch (Reply #5)

Mon Dec 3, 2018, 10:17 AM

Dec 2018

TheBlackAdder

(29,981 posts)

3. And I'm sure all of Trump's buddies were positioned to make a killing in the market on this news.

Reply to still_one (Original post)

Sun Dec 2, 2018, 10:25 PM

Dec 2018

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