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Funding Markets Are Freezing: Global Dollar Shortage Hits Alarming Levels
Funding Markets Are Freezing: Global Dollar Shortage Hits Alarming Levels The surging demand for repo liquidity – and massively expanded bailout facility size by the New York Fed – suggests there is a major global scramble for USD funding, and today’s price action in the archaic money markets exposes it has now reached extremely alarming […]
Gerald Celeste–$2000 Gold Coming and Brace For the Greatest Depression Ever Seen By Early 2021
GERALD CELENTE – $2000 GOLD COMING AND BRACE FOR THE GREATEST DEPRESSION EVER SEEN BY EARLY 2021 Gerald Celente, Founder of the Trends Research Institute, shares one of his boldest forecast with SBTV – expect $2,000 gold price as early as end-2020 and prepare for the onset of the greatest depression the world has ever seen by early […]
The Real Causes for the Oncoming Economic Collapse
The Real Causes for the Oncoming Economic Collapse This Thursday, the markets took a 1000 point hit which was more than a little startling for many investors since the last 1000 point fall only happened three days prior… all in all bringing the financial markets to lows not seen since April 2011, and veering dangerously […]
A toilet paper run is like a bank run. The economic fixes are about the same
A toilet paper run is like a bank run. The economic fixes are about the same Panic buying knows no borders. Shoppers in Australia, Japan, Hong Kong and the United States have caught toilet paper fever on the back of the COVID-19 coronavirus. Shop shelves are being emptied as quickly as they can be stocked. This panic buying is the result of […]
Only 5 Shale Drillers Are Still Profitable At $31 Oil
Only 5 Shale Drillers Are Still Profitable At $31 Oil Most shale oil wells drilled in the United States are unprofitable at current oil prices, Rystad Energy has warned. The Norwegian consultancy said, as quoted by Bloomberg, that drilling new wells would be loss-making for more than 100 companies. Just five shale drillers—Exxon, Chevron, Occidental, and Crownquest—can […]
Bank Of Japan Buys Record Amount Of ETFs, Admits ‘Paper Losses’, Plans Program Expansion
Bank Of Japan Buys Record Amount Of ETFs, Admits ‘Paper Losses’, Plans Program Expansion Having blown over two trillion yen since October in purchasing stocks (ETFs) in the open market to “support Japan’s economy,” markets are rife with speculation the Band of Japan (BoJ) could pledge next week to buy ETFs at a faster pace than […]
The Great American Shale-Oil Bust Turns into Massacre
The Great American Shale-Oil Bust Turns into Massacre Shares of shale oil drillers collapsed by 25%-50% today. Their bonds got massacred. Saudi-Russia price-war strategy appears successful in wiping out investors in the US shale-oil sector. It was so chaotic and brutal in the crude oil market today that the EIA, which is part of the […]
VIDEO: The Coronavirus Is The Pin Popping The ‘Everything Bubble’
VIDEO: The Coronavirus Is The Pin Popping The ‘Everything Bubble’ This will be an extinction-level event for many players For years, Peak Prosperity has been raising a loud warning of the ‘Everything Bubble’ that the world’s central banks have blown in global asset prices. Over that time, we’ve debated with hundreds of economic experts on […]
As Stocks & Oil Surge, Credit Market Carnage Continues
As Stocks & Oil Surge, Credit Market Carnage Continues Everything must be awesome again, right? Stocks are up. Oil is up. Bond yields are up… and no one has said the word “bloodbath” on CNBC yet this morning. However, those pesky kids in the credit markets won’t let stocks get away with it as HY […]
COVID-19 And Global Supply Chains: Watch Out For Bullwhip Effects
COVID-19 And Global Supply Chains: Watch Out For Bullwhip Effects In an earlier piece on the COVID-19 (Wuhan Coronavirus), I talked about how supply chain disruptions seemed to be occurring in slow-motion. A recent report from the Journal of Commerce warned of an imminent shortage of shipping containers in inland U.S. locations. How could these things be connected, and are we at […]
Funding Freeze Getting Worse: Dealers Demand Record $216BN In Liquidity From Fed Repo
Funding Freeze Getting Worse: Dealers Demand Record $216BN In Liquidity From Fed Repo Yesterday, when showing the sudden spike in the FRA/OIS spread – a key gauge of banking-sector risk which measures dollar shortages – we warned that liquidity in the market is virtually nil quoting a host of traders who confirmed that it was next to […]
New Jersey Declares State Of Emergency As Coronavirus Cases Triple In Greater New York: Live Updates
New Jersey Declares State Of Emergency As Coronavirus Cases Triple In Greater New York: Live Updates Update (0850ET): As the US market open draws near, investors are parsing a flood of coronavirus related news overnight, including the good (President Xi’s to Wuhan and a sharp drop in new cases in South Korea), the bad (US confirmed […]
Things Take a Turn
Things Take a Turn Around the same time that most Americans set their clocks ahead this weekend, something more momentous shoved the world into an epic phase-change, and the modern era, with all its mighty baggage, was finally swept away, along with that single lost hour of darkness. We’re in a new world, and one […]
