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6/2/10 Midafternoon Report: Market runs in the late afternoon as it attempts to get home in time for Oprah

June 02, 2010 – Comments (3) | RELATED TICKERS: ISLE , F , CTGX

It was a relatively quiet day in the market today which is more of a rarity than a downward sloping supply curve, a funny Adam Sandler movie, or a bad picture of Olivia Munn.  The market was up though as pending home sales shot through the roof, of course now someone will have to go back and fix the f*cking roof so the buyers won't back out, but those are just details.  Home sales rocketed up 6% but the government first time home buyers tax credit ended in April so sales were likely more pulled forward than a lottery winner's payout or the keg tap at David Hasselhoff's house at breakfast.  So while it is exciting that pending home sales went up, it's way too early to suck each other's dicks about it (though if you're Alice Eve and it's Money McBags dick, then it is never too early, or too often) as next month's sales should be down appreciably, like Steven Rattner's reputation or the mood at a suicide prevention hotline going away party.  In other real estate news, mortgage applications fell for the 4th consecutive week and if you read the f*cking analysis in the sentence directly before this, you will know why.  And in the latest job report by some outplacement firm called Challenger, job cuts were just as bad as last month though 65% better than last year, so welcome to your new normal.

Also, Mr. Buffett went to Washington to meet with all of his GS cronies, I mean the federal government.  Money McBags needs to stop getting those two confused.  Buffett spoke to the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, or as it's more commonly known as "Huh?" after being subpoenaed to testify about the ratings agencies and their utter failure to do anythng but suck at their jobs like a one legged long jumper.  While Buffett has been selling his shares of MCO, he is still their largest shareholder so his testimony was about as unbiased as Joe Francis testifying about age of consent laws.  Honestly, Money McBags finds it strange that the FCIC would give a sh*t what Buffett has to say about the ratings agencies since he's not going to talk down his own book.  It makes less sense than the Laffer Curve or Jennifer Connelly's acting career.  And guess what?  Buffett defended these a*sclowns who failed miserably at their jobs and served as bottom b*tches for investment banks to manipulate the markets.  To quote a CNBC article, Buffett said ratings agencies ""were wrong like everyone else" due to a widespread "bubble mentality" that believed housing prices couldn't crash".  Wow.  So let me get this straight, the ratings agencies who are paid NOT TO BE WRONG like everyone else because they are the SUPPOSED EXPERTS, f*cked up just like everyone else.  So riddle me this Mr. Oracle of Omaha, why the f*ck would anyone pay these "experts" if they are providing the same information or reaching the same conclusions as everyone f*cking else?  WHAT THE F*CK ARE THEY EXPERTS IN?  This is more perplexing than the fact that neither of the participants of Stocking-Huang wedding were stocking a "huang."  Money McBags knows Buffett needs to keep MCO stock propped up so he can sell it, but there is absolutely zero reason for these ratings agencies to exist, at least under the current incentive system which is more screwed up than Tiger Woods' kids are going to be.

In international news, Japan's Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama resigned to spend more time cultivating his Pokemon collection.  His term was the shortest by a Japanese Prime Minister since1994 when Mothra swooped down and carried then Prime Minister Tsutomu Hata back to Infant Island.  With asian markets already more jittery than a nanny at Roman Polanski's house, a change in Japanese leadership brings more uncertainty than Jamie Lee Curtis' true gender.  Japan has been mired in a decades long economic crisis stemming from a real estate bubble, low rates, and sites like the NSFW spankwire.com distributing their main export of bukakke films for free.  Investors now must worry about how the new regime will handle the world’s largest public debt while securing investor confidence in Japanese issued bonds.  Finally, european banks are moving money overnight to Europe's Central Bank at a record pace as they grow more fearful of write-downs and bad loans.  Euro-zone banks are doing this as they apparently view counter party risk to be more dangerous than political support from John Edwards.  Now look, Money McBags is no genius (though he is likely whatever is just one notch below genius), but if banks would rather earn fewer bps on overnight funds because they are worried about lending to other banks who may have lending problems, what does that say about their own f*cking balance sheets?  When Money McBags sees a CEO selling company stock, he stays away from that company and when he sees banks scared sh*tless of lending to other banks, he stays the f*ck away from that financial system.  It's like a canary in a coal mine or a t*rd in a punchbowl of t*rds.

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