Gold and Silver Raid/Problems in Japan deepen:

Harvey Organ Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Gold and Silver Raid/Problems in Japan deepen:

Japan Update: It’s Much Worse than it Looks

Here We Go Again: NHK Reports Fire At Fukushima Reactor #4

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/15/2011 17:48 -0400

Just headlines for now. We can only hope that the containment pool is not involved.

• TOKYO ELECTRIC WORKER SAW FIRE AT 5:44 LOCAL TIME
• FIRE AT FUKUSHIMA DAI-ICHI NO. 4 REACTOR, NHK REPORTS

Interactive Japan Wind Map

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/15/2011 14:51 -0400

You asked for it, and here it is - a fully interactive Japan wind map which includes forecasting up to 3 days forward. By the looks of things, the Jetstream is about to start glowing in the dark. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What goES Up, Must Plunge Down

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/15/2011 18:44 -0400

And just as the regular trading session, which is now obviously composed exlusively of the occasional bipolar lunatic and a whole lot of 'buy only' algorithms, levitated stocks above the inferno of Japanese reality, so the after hours session provides a convenient buffer for all those who have access to daily ES trading to take advantage of old mom and pop who are stuck with their IBM shares until tomorrow's gap down, and reintroduce gravity to the equation. Behold afterhours futures trading, er, sliding. Japan opens in an hour and a half. Bring your fireman's helmet. 

 

 

 

DigitalGlobe's Satellite Imagery Analysis Of Fukushima

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/15/2011 17:01 -0400

As actual (not to mention credible) news out of Fukushima and Japan slow to a trickle, potentially due to the recent imposition of Article 15 by the Japanese government (an emergency regulatory clause that allows the senior levels of the Japanese government to stop other Japanese government agencies from communicating with the public and news media) which bans nuclear regulatory and protection agencies, from issuing any statements about the nuclear crisis situation in Japan, the only objective information may soon be flyby analysis by third party satellite companies which do not have skin in the game. Below we present the most recent analysis conducted

 

 

 

 

USDJPY Jumps 60 pips In Seconds On Apparent Intervention

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/15/2011 13:22 -0400

While we have no confirmation yet, the USDJPY just jumped by 60 pips from post-earthquake low levels to 81.20 on what appears a Bank of Japan intervention. The last time we had confirmed intervention was on October 31 last year, when the pair was trading at 52 week lows of 81.30. 30 pips from the previous trigger point would makes sense for Shirakawa to say "enough." If this was indeed an intervention, we hope to bring you just how much USD the BOJ purchased. Indicatively, in 2010 each intervention cost the BOJ a few hundred million. And with the effect already wearing off, the half life (pardon the bad pun) on interventions is now the lowest it has ever been. 

 

 

 

Rumor Nikkei To Remain Closed For Rest Of Week On "Margin Issues"

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/15/2011 13:00 -0400

Copy/paste of what we got from a trading desk:

Mkt rumour nikkei to remain closed for the rest of week..margin issues.....some rumbling all afternoon, but as we head towards the end of European trading more people asking

More if we get it...