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Pam and Russ Martens: Meet the Fed's global Plunge Protection Team

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Pam and Russ Martens
Wall Street on Parade
Sunday, May 10, 2020

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rallied 455 points by the closing bell on Friday. It seemed sadistic to average folks. One hour before the stock market opened, the Bureau of Labor Statistics had reported the worst U.S. unemployment figure since the Great Depression (14.7 percent) along with the staggering loss of 20.5 million jobs in just April.

Within the first half hour of trading, the Dow was up more than 300 points. It then added to those gains in afternoon trading.

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None of the explanations offered by mainstream media to explain the incongruous stock trading were accurate.

It was not because the stock market had anticipated worse or that the market was rallying because it thought the worst of the economic fallout was behind us. It was because the one emergency funding facility that the Federal Reserve has quietly ramped up more than any other, its Foreign Central Bank Liquidity Swap Lines, was working its magic.

To understand what happened Friday, you need to understand what Fed Chair Jerome Powell was methodically setting in place in February. ...

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