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Venezuela Default Countdown Begins: After Selling Billions In Gold, Caracas Raids $467 Million In IMF Reserves
Venezuela Default Countdown Begins: After Selling Billions In Gold, Caracas Raids $467 Million In IMF Reserves In late October, when describing Venezuela’s desperate steps to keep itself afloat for a few more months, we reported that in order to fund $3.5 billion bond payments in early November, Maduro’s government had engaged in something that is the very […]
Commodity Carnage Continues Amid Fears Of Glencore Liquidation
Commodity Carnage Continues Amid Fears Of Glencore Liquidation Despite a relatively unchanged US Dollar, commodities across the board are under significant (and seemingly coordinated) pressure this morning. It appears that the key selling began as Europe opened and the carnage in massive commodity group Glencore began to materialize. Glencore CDS is now above 700bps (up 154bps […]
Global Markets Turmoil After China Extends Currency War To 2nd Day – Devalues Yuan To 4 Year Lows
Global Markets Turmoil After China Extends Currency War To 2nd Day – Devalues Yuan To 4 Year Lows Chinese stocks opened lower, extending yesterday’s losses, after The PBOC weakened its Yuan FIX dramatically for the 2nd consecutive day(from 6.1162 Monday to 6.2298 last night to 6.3306). Offshore Yuan fell another 9 handles against the USD after China […]
Brain-Drained
Brain-Drained Venezuela: Real Wages Collapse amid Continuing Crack-Up Boom While the crack-up boom in Venezuela continues, real wages in the country have have utterly collapsed. The bolivar is still trading close to 700 to the US dollar on the black market, and the Caracas stock index keeps making new all time highs in nominal terms […]
Futures Soar On Hope Central Planners Are Back In Control, China Rollercoaster Ends In The Red
Futures Soar On Hope Central Planners Are Back In Control, China Rollercoaster Ends In The Red For the first half an hour after China opened, things looked bleak: after opening down 5%, the Shanghai Composite staged a quick relief rally, then tumbled again. And then, just around 10pm Eastern, we saw acoordinated central bank intervention stepping […]
China Soars Most Since 2009 After Government Threatens Short Sellers With Arrest, Global Stocks Surge
China Soars Most Since 2009 After Government Threatens Short Sellers With Arrest, Global Stocks Surge Here is a brief sample of some of the measures the Chinese government and the PBOC have unleashed in just the past ten days to prop up the crashing market include: a ban on major shareholders, corporate executives, directors from […]
Collapsing CDS Market Will Lead To Global Bond Market Margin Call
Collapsing CDS Market Will Lead To Global Bond Market Margin Call As Zero Hedge previously noted, liquidity is there when you don’t need it, and it promptly disappears once it is in demand. Consider it “cocktease capitalism.” If liquidity lasts longer than 4 hours, call the CFTC because you may be experiencing a spoof. Right now, the ultimate spoof […]
Is The CDS Market Manipulated? | Zero Hedge
Is The CDS Market Manipulated? | Zero Hedge. Credit Event, Or Not? Is Another Market Being Manipulated? (pdf) As investors and market participants become increasingly aware of the regulatory failures that allowed for manipulation of LIBOR, FOREX, municipal bond bidding and certain commodities markets, regulatory sources are increasingly expressing concern that they have paid too little attention […]
Venezuela “Boosts” Reserves With Rocks, Other “Easily Converted To Cash” Stuff; Suffers Major Blackout | Zero Hedge
Venezuela “Boosts” Reserves With Rocks, Other “Easily Converted To Cash” Stuff; Suffers Major Blackout | Zero Hedge. With its bonds trading at 50% of face value, CDS implying an 84% chance of default, a black-market FX rate that signals massive devaluation is likely, and a teetering-on-the-brink of social unrest population entirely dependent on President Maduro’s […]
