{"id":13720,"date":"2011-06-10T14:38:47","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T18:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=13720"},"modified":"2016-09-20T08:57:14","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T12:57:14","slug":"the-2pm-squeeze-thank-your-local-fed-banker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/10\/the-2pm-squeeze-thank-your-local-fed-banker\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2pm Squeeze &#8211; Thank Your Local Fed Banker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A dreary day in marketland. As if it was not bad enough that the month of June has only had one positive day for the S&amp;P 500.<\/p>\n<p>The Euro was melting away, the equity markets with it. Precious metals were getting slammed and it it was getting close to a level that looked as if there was not support for another<!--more--> 2% or so&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Then, almost to the second, as the clock struck 2pm&#8230; <strong>A Miracle! <\/strong>An announcement <em>slipped <\/em>out that the banks may not be required to put aside as much as first thought.  A well placed story at a particularly good time. Right? The market came up about 0.50% in a matter of minutes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/welltimes-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13735\" title=\"welltimes\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/welltimes-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"582\" height=\"408\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Come on fellas, are we going to go through this again? Feed a story and see how the markets take it. AND, on a Friday at 2pm?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dreary day in marketland. As if it was not bad enough that the month of June has only had one positive day for the S&amp;P 500. The Euro was melting away, the equity markets with it. Precious metals were getting slammed and it it was getting close to a level that looked as if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[481,483],"class_list":["post-13720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-markets","tag-economy","tag-markets","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}