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Panic, Crisis In Italy: Dealers Pull Bids As Bonds, Stocks Crash; Euro, Deutsche Bank Tumble As Contagion Spreads
Panic, Crisis In Italy: Dealers Pull Bids As Bonds, Stocks Crash; Euro, Deutsche Bank Tumble As Contagion Spreads With UK traders returning from vacation, Italy woke up to a sheer selling panic as yesterday’s “modest” selloff mutated into a full-blown liquidation avalanche, lead by a furious repricing of the BTP curve, where 2Y yields exploded […]
Ebola Breach: Vomiting Patients “In Active Phase” Smuggled Out Of Quarantine, Die Within Hours
Ebola Breach: Vomiting Patients “In Active Phase” Smuggled Out Of Quarantine, Die Within Hours Congo health officials are scrambling to contain the country’s newest Ebola outbreak, which has made its way from the small remote town of Bikoro to the town of Mbandaka, home to around 1.2 million residents. On Thursday, Dr. Jean-Clement Cabrol of Doctors Without Borders […]
Italian Bonds, Stocks Crash In Furious Reversal As Political Drama Explodes
Italian Bonds, Stocks Crash In Furious Reversal As Political Drama Explodes Yesterday, in the aftermath of the latest Italian political drama, in which president Mattarella openly mocked democracy, and under pressure from Europe vetoed the choice of the euroskeptic economy minister, Paolo Savona, we warned that this outcome was even worse for markets than the […]
Escaped Ebola Patients Risked Spreading Virus At Packed Prayer Meeting
Escaped Ebola Patients Risked Spreading Virus At Packed Prayer Meeting Two Ebola patients who escaped from a quarantine in the Democratic Republic of Congo attended a prayer meeting with 50 other people, raising the possibility that those exposed could reignite the Ebola epidemic that was on the edge of spreading throughout the world back in […]
Italian Bonds Tumble, Triggering Goldman “Contagion” Level As Political Crisis Erupts In Spain
Italian Bonds Tumble, Triggering Goldman “Contagion” Level As Political Crisis Erupts In Spain When it comes to the latest rout in Italian bonds, which has continued this morning sending the 10Y BTP yield beyond 2.40%, a level above which Morgan Stanley had predicted fresh BTP selling would emerge as a break would leave many bondholders, […]
Canadian Banks See Mortgage Growth Stall As Interest Rates Rise
Canadian Banks See Mortgage Growth Stall As Interest Rates Rise As anybody who was around for the housing collapse will remember, nothing bursts a bubble in home prices faster than rising mortgage rates. And while US home prices have surpassed their pre-crisis peak, Canadian home prices have risen much more quickly than home prices in […]
Russia Finance Minister: We Are Ready To Ditch The Dollar In Favor Of The Euro
Russia Finance Minister: We Are Ready To Ditch The Dollar In Favor Of The Euro In a testament to the success of the latest Trump sanctions against Russia, overnight Russian aluminum giant Rusal announced that its chief executive, Aleksandra Buriko, and half of its managerial board resigned to make sure the firm avoids U.S. sanctions […]
“Whispers Of Capital Controls” As Turkish Lira Plunge Resumes
“Whispers Of Capital Controls” As Turkish Lira Plunge Resumes As widely expected , the beneficial boost to the Turkish Lira from yesterday’s emergency 3% hike in the late liquidity window rate by the Turkish Central Bank did not even last one full day, and on Thursday the Turkish Lira collapse resumed, with the currency reversing […]
Hawaii National Guard Presence Builds As Lava Nears Geothermal Power Plant
Hawaii National Guard Presence Builds As Lava Nears Geothermal Power Plant Update: For some context of what is going on in Hawaii, here is NBC’s latest live shot – not a green screen… * * * Via Intellihub.com, The situation on the Big Island is changing rapidly as Mount Kilauea spews more lava and gas […]
An Unexpected Warning From Goldman Sachs: “Something Is Not Quite Right”
An Unexpected Warning From Goldman Sachs: “Something Is Not Quite Right” It was just over 9 years ago today when we wrote “The Incredibly Shrinking Market Liquidity, Or The Upcoming Black Swan Of Black Swans” in which we explained how as a result of the growing influence of HFT, quants and central banks, the market […]
New DARPA Program Plans To Patrol Cities With AI Drones
New DARPA Program Plans To Patrol Cities With AI Drones On May 10, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) unveiled the Urban Reconnaissance through Supervised Autonomy (URSA) program, which addresses the issues of reconnaissance, surveillance, and target acquisition within urban environments. The primary objective of the URSA program is to evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of […]
Contaminated Fukushima Water Storage Tanks “Close To Capacity”, TEPCO Admits
Contaminated Fukushima Water Storage Tanks “Close To Capacity”, TEPCO Admits The Tokyo Electric Power Company is running out of container space to store water contaminated by tritium outside the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, and it’s also running out of room for building more tanks, according to Yomiuri Shimbum, a Japanese newspaper, which is […]
Hawaii Residents Trapped As Volcanic Eruption Intensifies, First Major Injury Reported After “Lava Bomb”
Hawaii Residents Trapped As Volcanic Eruption Intensifies, First Major Injury Reported After “Lava Bomb” More residents of Hawaii’s Big Island have been told to evacuate as fast moving lava threatens homes and businesses after a new, explosive eruption took place at Kilauea’s summit crater Saturday as well as the emergence of fresh, faster flowing lava throughout the region. Some […]
Turkey Repatriates All Gold From The US In Attempt To Ditch The Dollar
Turkey Repatriates All Gold From The US In Attempt To Ditch The Dollar After Venezuela, Germany, Austria and the Netherlands prudently repatriated a substantial portion (if not all) of their physical gold held at the NY Fed or other western central banks in recent years, one month ago Turkey announced that it too has decided […]
Thousands In Sweden Have Implanted Microchips Under Their Skin
Thousands In Sweden Have Implanted Microchips Under Their Skin More than 3,000 people in Sweden have implanted tiny microchips beneath their skin to replace their credit card information, identification, keys, train tickets, among other everyday items, Agence France-Press announced Sunday. The implant, which is about the size of a grain of rice, utilizes Near Field Communication (NFC) […]
