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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 […]
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 […]
Saxo Q4 Outlook: A New Easing Cycle Based on Ugly Realities
Saxo Q4 Outlook: A New Easing Cycle Based on Ugly Realities Saxo Bank, the online trading and investment specialist, has today published its Q4 2018 Quarterly Outlook for global markets, including trading ideas covering equities, FX, currencies, commodities, and bonds, as well as a range of macro themes impacting client portfolios. “We are clearly at […]
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 […]
Blain: “Liquidity Will Be The Murder Weapon”
Blain: “Liquidity Will Be The Murder Weapon” “Slain, after all man’s devices had failed, by the humblest things that God, in his wisdom, has put upon this earth”” After last week’s stock market ructions, my market spidey senses are tingling… https://morningporridge.com/stuff-im-watching In the headlights this morning: Saudi Arabia: forget the IPO and worry about MbS […]
Has “It” Finally Arrived?
Shutterstock Has “It” Finally Arrived? Is this week’s 6% market drop the start of the Big One? With the recent plunge in the S&P 500 of over 5%, has the long-anticipated (and long-overdue) market correction finally begun? It’s hard to say for certain. But the systemic cracks we’ve been closely monitoring definitely got an awful […]
Amid Market Rout, Decade of “Financial Repression” Ends, Capital Preservation Suddenly is a Thing
Amid Market Rout, Decade of “Financial Repression” Ends, Capital Preservation Suddenly is a Thing This will dog the stock market going forward. Fixed-income investors – a financially conservative bunch buying Treasury securities, FDIC-insured CDs, and similar products that largely eliminate risk – have been getting crushed for a decade: Except for brief periods when inflation […]
Stock Market Chaos Sparks Oil Selloff
Stock Market Chaos Sparks Oil Selloff The plunge in global equities on Wednesday and Thursday dragged down crude oil, with even concerns about falling Iranian supply not enough to keep crude from a steep selloff. Brent fell more than 1.2 percent on Wednesday and was down another 1.5 percent in early trading on Thursday, falling […]
Wednesday’s Rout Was An 8-Sigma Event: The 5th Largest Tail Event In History
Wednesday’s Rout Was An 8-Sigma Event: The 5th Largest Tail Event In History With markets in rebound mode today, the sellside’s fascination with Wednesday’s sharp, unexpected selloff continues. In the latest “hot take” on Wednesday’s dramatic drop, Goldman’s derivatives strategist Rocky Fishman takes on a different approach to the Wednesday rout, looking at it in […]
The Myth Of The Eternal Market Bubble And Why It Is Dead Wrong
The Myth Of The Eternal Market Bubble And Why It Is Dead Wrong Economic collapse is not an event — it is a process. I’ve been saying this since the initial 2008 crash, and I suppose I will keep saying it until it burns into people’s minds because I don’t think that it is a […]
“This Is Becoming Dangerous” Morgan Stanley Warns, As Forced Liquidations Loom
“This Is Becoming Dangerous” Morgan Stanley Warns, As Forced Liquidations Loom Today is adding to the accumulated pain of the last few days for most funds. Momentum has retraced nearly all of its YTD gains and names with high active ownership are underperforming names with high active ownership by 3 standard deviations. This is becoming […]
“It’s Just Beginning”: US Futures Plunge As Global Rout Hammers Asia, Europe
“It’s Just Beginning”: US Futures Plunge As Global Rout Hammers Asia, Europe It is a sea of blood red this October morning as the biggest market rout since February and the longest selloff of the Trump administration triggered a surge of global selling from the U.S. through Asia and spreading to Europe on Thursday, with […]
Asian Markets Crushed By Capitulation Carnage
Asian Markets Crushed By Capitulation Carnage No “National Team”… No “Plunge Protection Team”… No RRR Cuts… and not a word from Powell. The US equity market massacre is extending overnight as the liquidation crisis smashes into Asia… The initial red box is the after-hours drop and the second drop is as Asian cash markets opened… […]
How Dangerous is the Month of October?
How Dangerous is the Month of October? A Month with a Bad Reputation A certain degree of nervousness tends to suffuse global financial markets when the month of October approaches. The memories of sharp slumps that happened in this month in the past – often wiping out the profits of an entire year in a […]
