The knee-jerk reaction to a better-than-expected (and entirely noise-driven) payroll number (with a rise in the unemployment rate) is a rip higher in stocks and collapse in bonds and precious metals. The USD is surging as USDJPY instantly hit 103.50 (breaking through its 50DMA) providing all the juice stocks need to test that critical Goldman 1,900 year-end target for the S&P 500. It seems, just as we warned earlier, "whatever the number, the algos will send stocks higher – that much is given in a blow off top bubble market in which any news is an excuse to buy more."
Of course there's only one real reason why stocks surged…
Charts: Bloomberg
via Zero Hedge http://ift.tt/1jZx58v Tyler Durden