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Spanish Yields Blow Out Amid Italy Contagion As Italian Banks Scramble For Dollar Funding
Spanish Yields Blow Out Amid Italy Contagion As Italian Banks Scramble For Dollar Funding Contagion from the recent surge in Italian yields has spread, and is hitting Spanish 10Y yields which over the past 3 days have blown out from 1.65% to as high as 1.82% this morning, before paring some of the move, printing […]
Russia And China Prepare To Ditch Dollar In Bilateral Trade
Russia And China Prepare To Ditch Dollar In Bilateral Trade In a time when many nations have gone public with their intention to ditch the dollar in part or in whole, in bilateral trade with non-US counterparts, either to prevent the US from having “veto power” of commerce courtesy of SWIFT or simply in response […]
Leon Cooperman: “The Whole Structure Of The Market Is Broken”
Leon Cooperman: “The Whole Structure Of The Market Is Broken” In a wide-ranging interview on CNBC, Leon Cooperman, chairman and CEO of Omega Advisors, explained that he doe snot see the market as ‘cheap’ or ‘expensive’ currently but warns that traditional value-manager-driven strategies face difficulties because ” all these quantitative trading systems are destroying the […]
Chinese Verbal Intervention In The Market Fails As Stock Rout Accelerates
Chinese Verbal Intervention In The Market Fails As Stock Rout Accelerates This morning, when we reported that the latest flood of margin calls, resulting from $600 billion in shares pledged as collateral for loans and representing a whopping 11% of China’s market cap, sent the Shanghai Composite tumbling 3% to the lowest level since November […]
Dollar Libor Jumps To Fresh 10 Year High, Adding To Funding Headwinds
Dollar Libor Jumps To Fresh 10 Year High, Adding To Funding Headwinds It may be the bete noir of the credit market, but despite the gradual phase out of the infamous manipulated benchmark, Libor remains the reference rate for trillions in floating rate debt instruments, and in a further indication that monetary conditions are tightening […]
Here’s Why the Market Must Continue to Rip Higher — Everything Depends On It
Here’s Why the Market Must Continue to Rip Higher — Everything Depends On It Rarely discussed, corporate and government pensions, are barreling towards disaster. For some reason, there is an assumption that what ails the government, with their $20 trillion in debt, isn’t something that ordinary folk need to worry about. After all, times are good […]
China Crashes As Flood Of Margin Calls Sparks “Liquidity Crisis”, Panic Selling
China Crashes As Flood Of Margin Calls Sparks “Liquidity Crisis”, Panic Selling The Treasury’s latest semiannual FX report may have spared China the designation of currency manipulator (for now… in a new twist, there was a section dedicated exclusively to China in the Executive Summary, a clear signal from the Treasury that China is the […]
More Italians Move Savings To Switzerland As Fears Of Banking “Doom Loop” Intensify
More Italians Move Savings To Switzerland As Fears Of Banking “Doom Loop” Intensify With the euro weakening against the Swiss franc (recently trading at session lows of 1.14) and Italian stocks and bonds tumbling once again on reports that the European Commission is planning to reject the Italian draft budget plan submitted earlier this week […]
Scientists Warn World Facing Major Famine, Could “Lead To Severe Shocks To Global Food System”
Scientists Warn World Facing Major Famine, Could “Lead To Severe Shocks To Global Food System” Researchers from Washington State University have published a new report of the Great Drought, the most destructive known drought of the past 800 years – and how it sparked the Global Famine that claimed the lives of 50 million people. The scientists warn […]
China Changes Definition Of Aggregate Financing To Disguise Sharp Credit Slowdown
China Changes Definition Of Aggregate Financing To Disguise Sharp Credit Slowdown With investor attention increasingly focused on China’s credit pipeline to see if the recent crackdown on shadow lending has unlocked other sources of debt in a country where growth is always and only a credit phenomenon, and where both the housing and auto sectors […]
Forced Buy-Ins Spark “Liquidity Crisis” In China’s ‘Nasdaq’
Forced Buy-Ins Spark “Liquidity Crisis” In China’s ‘Nasdaq’ Marking the worst year since 2008, China’s tech-heavy (Nasdaq-equivalent) Shenzhen Composite index is down a shocking 35% year-to-date, and it’s starting to become a self-feeding vicious circle… As Bloomberg reports, the most recent slump in the teach-heavy index comes despite regulators’ efforts to rein in risks of […]
Venezuela Ditches US Dollar, Will Use Euros For International Trade
Venezuela Ditches US Dollar, Will Use Euros For International Trade Venezuela has just taken the next step in its quest to “free” itself from the tyranny of US dollar hegemony. One year after the country said it would stop accepting US dollars as payment for its (ever shrinking) oil exports (saying the country’s state-run oil […]
S&P Reveals $5.8 Trillion In “Hidden” Chinese Debt With “Titanic Credit Risks”
S&P Reveals $5.8 Trillion In “Hidden” Chinese Debt With “Titanic Credit Risks” When it comes to estimating China’s total outstanding debt, there has long been confusion about the real number with most putting the debt/GDP at around 250%, while the IIF last year calculated China’s debt load as high as 300% of GDP. Now, China […]
