There is just too much news to talk about tonight in depth so I’ll give you the key points:

-S&P 500 up 5.27% today on optimism that the $700bb bailout plan will go through, recovering from yesterday’s slump of about 8 ½%
-EUR/USD saw its largest, single day decline ever – daily range was about -415 pips (NY)
-Citigroup gets Wachovia in an inevitable outcome, absorbing about $42bb of losses, focus on longer-term play
-USD demand through the roof on peaking Libor rate, driven by lack of liquidity/borrowing
-Fortis gets bailed out with an EU11.2bb rescue package from governments
-Europe’s Dexia SA, the biggest lender to local governments got an EU6.2bb state-backed rescue
– Germany's financial industry provided Hypo Real Estate Holding AG with a credit facility
-UK’s Bradford and Bingley gets nationalized by the government to protect about 21bb pounds of consumer deposits
-UBS announces the elimination of 1,900 jobs in Investment Banking and Trading Divisions

…and that’s just since Sunday night. Whew!

So where do we stand:

EUR’s decline today has been noted by some on end-of-month exaggerations. I think they’re right, to a certain extent. Regardless, we’re now staring at a nasty drop that is going to be hard to correct. But this isn’t like before. I’m not convinced of a further nasty selloff like the one we saw at the beginning of August. The longer-term trend line comes in at 1.3925, and for short positions, that’s the big target. Oil had a big push today and it barely touched EUR; correlations are off due to the borrowing issue and overall demand for USD. This should taper off.

I expect SPX to consolidate short term with bias to the upside fueled by bailout optimism. This should help push other world indices higher and USD/JPY and related carry pairs higher.

Bottom Line: Still looking higher for EUR, GBP, buying on pullbacks for the longer-term move, though downside risk is still there. In fact I wouldnt be surprised to see these recent daily lows get taken out before any scrambling to the upside. USD/JPY I expect to consolidate with bias to the upside. Same goes for related carry pairs. Longer term outlook is still the same, however. Looking for a weaker dollar/higher commodities. The safer pairs lately seem to be AUD and NZD. My Gold outlook hasn’t changed and physical gold vs. spot is still at a massive premium…..looking for this to pan out and AUD and NZD are the primary targets.

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