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BofA’s Apocalyptic Forecast: Stocks Flash Crash, Bond Bubble Bursts In H1 2018, War May Follow
BofA’s Apocalyptic Forecast: Stocks Flash Crash, Bond Bubble Bursts In H1 2018, War May Follow Having predicted back in July that the “most dangerous moment for markets will come in 3 or 4 months“, i.e., now, BofA’s Michael Hartnett was – in retrospect – wrong (unless of course the S&P plunges in the next few […]
Big Brother Is Here: Twitter Will Monitor Users Behavior ‘Off Platform
Big Brother Is Here: Twitter Will Monitor Users Behavior ‘Off Platform‘ In perhaps the most intrusive move of social media platforms’ efforts signal as much virtue as possible and appease their potentially-regulating government overlords, Twitter has announced that it is cracking down on what it defines at hate-speech and not just by looking at its […]
Arab League Holds Emergency Session: Iran And “Terrorist” Hezbollah Must Be Stopped
Arab League Holds Emergency Session: Iran And “Terrorist” Hezbollah Must Be Stopped Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister, in opening remarks to the Arab League today, declared that the kingdom “will not hesitate to defend its national security to keep its people safe” while requesting that joint action be taken to stop Iranian “aggression” and attacks on Arab […]
Draghi Speech: Everything Is Awesome In Europe, No Signs Of Systemic Risks
Draghi Speech: Everything Is Awesome In Europe, No Signs Of Systemic Risks Mario Draghi gave the keynote speech at the Frankfurt European Banking Congress this morning in which he focused on the strong outlook for the Eurozone economy and how his monetary policy is playing a vital role. The speech was peppered with upbeat phrases […]
Saudi Arabia Offers Arrested Royals A Deal: Your Freedom For Lots Of Cash
Saudi Arabia Offers Arrested Royals A Deal: Your Freedom For Lots Of Cash Saudi Arabia just introduced a 70% wealth tax. It did so in a most original way… As we noted shortly after the Crown Prince’s purge of potential rivals within Saudi Arabia’s sprawling ruling family, while the dozens of arrests were made under […]
Venezuela, PDVSA CDS Triggered: ISDA Says Credit Event Has Occured
Venezuela, PDVSA CDS Triggered: ISDA Says Credit Event Has Occured In a long overdue, and not exactly surprising decision, moments ago the ISDA Determination Committee decided, after punting for three days in a row, that a Failure to Pay Credit Event has occured with respect to both the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela as well as […]
Russia Names The 9 US News Outlets It Will Retaliate Against
Russia Names The 9 US News Outlets It Will Retaliate Against After hinting that retaliation was imminent, Russian lawmakers in the Duma – Russia’s lower house of Parliament – have approved a law that would require nine US news outlets to be labeled “foreign agents” in response to Washington’s decision to require Russia Today to […]
Fed Hints During Next Recession It Will Roll Out Income Targeting, NIRP
Fed Hints During Next Recession It Will Roll Out Income Targeting, NIRP In a moment of rare insight, two weeks ago in response to a question “Why is establishment media romanticizing communism? Authoritarianism, poverty, starvation, secret police, murder, mass incarceration? WTF?”, we said that this was simply a “prelude to central bank funded universal income”, […]
Keystone XL Pipeline Shut Down After 5,000-Barrel Spill In South Dakota
Keystone XL Pipeline Shut Down After 5,000-Barrel Spill In South Dakota Well this is awkward. After months/years of protests targeting the Keystone XL pipeline from environmentalists worried about oil spills, TransCanada has now been forced to shut down the pipeline following…drum roll please…a 5,000 barrel oil spill in South Dakota. According to The Hill, the […]
Venezuela Signs $3.2 Billion Debt Restructuring Deal With Russia
Venezuela Signs $3.2 Billion Debt Restructuring Deal With Russia As Venezuela teeters right on the brink of complete financial collapse, Bloomberg reports that Russia has agreed to restructure roughly $3.2 billion in outstanding obligations. While details of the restructuring agreement are scarce, both sides reported that the deal spreads payments out over 10 years with […]
Canada Builds $300 Million Highway To Nowhere, But Is There A Hidden Agenda?
Canada Builds $300 Million Highway To Nowhere, But Is There A Hidden Agenda? A new $300-million first of its kind ‘permanent’ highway will officially open in the Northwest Territories of Canada on Wednesday. This will be the first time in Canada’s history that the national highway system will be linked to all coasts. The completion […]
Sweden: The World’s Biggest Housing Bubble Cracks
Sweden: The World’s Biggest Housing Bubble Cracks Sweden’s property bubble is probably the world’s biggest, despite which it gets relatively little coverage in the mainstream financial media – although that might be about to change. Warnings about this bubble are not new. In March 2016, Moody’s issued a very explicit warning that Sweden’s negative interest […]
San Andreas ‘Quake Swarm’ Has Cali Residents Fearing The ‘Big One’ Is Imminen
San Andreas ‘Quake Swarm’ Has Cali Residents Fearing The ‘Big One’ Is Imminent Yesterday morning a series of 10 earthquakes struck Monterey County, California along the San Andreas fault line and has Cali residents increasingly concerned that the “Big One” could be next. The quakes, the biggest of which measured 4.6 on the Richter scale, […]
Zimbabwe ‘Coup’ Escalates: US Embassy Closes, Explosions Rock Harare, Military Seize State Broadcaster
Zimbabwe ‘Coup’ Escalates: US Embassy Closes, Explosions Rock Harare, Military Seize State Broadcaster Following at least three explosions across Zimbabwe’s capital city tonight – following what appears to be the start of a military coup as tanks rolled in – the US embassy in Harare has been closed. Additionally, reports state that troops have deployed […]
IEA Pours Cold Water On OPEC Optimism, Warns Global Oil Demand Shrinking
IEA Pours Cold Water On OPEC Optimism, Warns Global Oil Demand Shrinking Pouring cold water on yesterday’s optimistic demand forecast projected by OPEC, which projected global crude demand growth to rise by 1.5mm b/d in 2018, this morning the International Energy Agency warned that the crude oil price rally could be short-lived because, contrary to […]
