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Canada Rebels against the Destruction of the Loonie
Canada Rebels against the Destruction of the Loonie The fear of “currency instability.” “Without precedent” — that’s what National Bank of Canada’s chief economist Stéfane Marion called the wholesale destruction of the loonie. The Canadian dollar is in a tailspin. Rarely has it tumbled so far so fast, and against so many currencies. The steepness of […]
Consensual Hallucination Fades, Global Stocks Crushed
Consensual Hallucination Fades, Global Stocks Crushed Something big has changed. Stock markets around the world are getting crushed. Some markets are down 20%, 30%, 40%, or more, even those where central banks are pursuing a scorched-earth wealth-effect strategy of mega-QE and negative-interest-rate policies. Something big has changed. Early Thursday morning, I posted an article [When “Story […]
This is Where Industrial Production Normally Meets a Recession
This is Where Industrial Production Normally Meets a Recession The only exceptions were in the early 1950s Painful – that’s how you can describe the slew of recent US economic data. And today’s data dump was even worse. On a regional level, there was the Empire State Manufacturing Survey. The Current Activity Index plunged to the […]
When “Story Stocks” Crash Like this, the Market is Kaput
When “Story Stocks” Crash Like this, the Market is Kaput Reality suddenly mucks up the rosy scenario. Many of our heroic “story stocks” are getting totally destroyed. Yet not much has changed: Their business model, if any, is the same; they’re still losing money hand over fist; and they’re still trotting out the same custom-designed […]
Canadian Stocks in Bear Market, Loonie Swoons, Crude Crashes to $16, Consumer & Business Confidence Dives…
Canadian Stocks in Bear Market, Loonie Swoons, Crude Crashes to $16, Consumer & Business Confidence Dives… “Investment and hiring intentions lowest since 2009”: Bank of Canada Since Christmas Eve, the Toronto Stock Exchange index has dropped every single day, 10 trading days in a row, including so far today as I’m writing this, the longest […]
What Will China Dump Next, After Treasuries, to Keep Control?
What Will China Dump Next, After Treasuries, to Keep Control? “Practically boundless” future capital outflows. “Beneath all of the financial turbulence there lurks, in my view, a credit crisis; I fear the worst now,” UBS economic adviser George Magnus told Bloomberg TV today. The reform agenda “has stalled,” he said, and “things are looking much bleaker for […]
Oil Plunges to $32-Handle, Chinese Stocks Crash and are Halted, Whiff of Mayhem Breaks out
Oil Plunges to $32-Handle, Chinese Stocks Crash and are Halted, Whiff of Mayhem Breaks out Why Oil Keeps Falling off the Chart After having been through the greatest two-year loss on record, the price of oil plunged 9.6% on Wednesday and in evening trading. As I’m writing this, WTI hit $32.62 a barrel, a new low […]
Global Corporate Debt is Coming Unglued
Global Corporate Debt is Coming Unglued Default Rate Highest since 2009, US Distress Ratio Soars. Standard & Poor’s slashed the credit ratings of 112 corporations around the globe to default (D) or selective default (SD) in 2015, according to S&P Capital IQ Global Credit. The highest number of global defaults since nightmare-year 2009, when a previously […]
Happy New Year: America’s Largest Utility Jacks up Rates the Most since 2006 Despite Total Collapse of Natural Gas Prices
Happy New Year: America’s Largest Utility Jacks up Rates the Most since 2006 Despite Total Collapse of Natural Gas Prices The power of monopoly and regulatory capture “We want our customers and their families to know that we are here to help them make smart energy choices and save money whenever possible,” cooed Laurie Giammona, […]
What Secret Do Global Banks Know about Chinese Banks?
What Secret Do Global Banks Know about Chinese Banks? They’re dumping their stakes. “Now is the right time for us to sell this investment,” announced Deutsche Bank’s newish co-CEO John Cryan on Monday after the long Christmas weekend when no one was supposed to pay attention. It was how Cryan justified the deal to sell Deutsche’s entire […]
I was asked: Whatever Happened to Inflation after all this Money-Printing?
I was asked: Whatever Happened to Inflation after all this Money-Printing? So where’s my free lunch? I was asked once again why all this central-bank “money-printing” along with global zero-interest-rate or even negative-interest-rate policies haven’t caused a big bout of inflation, considering how currencies are getting watered down. It’s a crucial question that baffled many […]
It Gets Ugly in the Toniest Parts of London
It Gets Ugly in the Toniest Parts of London Those once “awash with cash don’t have as much to spend.” It gets ugly for luxury homes in the toniest parts of London. The combined value of homes that were sold in prime central London, which includes Belgravia and Chelsea, plunged 24.5% in 2015, year-over-year, to […]
Carnage in US Natural Gas as Price Falls off the Chart
Carnage in US Natural Gas as Price Falls off the Chart All eyes are on Chesapeake. The price of natural gas in the US has gotten completely destroyed. The process started in July 2008, at over $13 per million Btu and continues through today, at $1.77 per million Btu. In between, natural gas traded at […]
“Perverse, Unpredictable Effects” of Negative Interest Rates: Mortgage Rates Soar in Switzerland
“Perverse, Unpredictable Effects” of Negative Interest Rates: Mortgage Rates Soar in Switzerland The unintended consequences of NIRP. Negative interest rates – called “punishment interest” in Germany – have morphed from sheer impossibility to solid reality in Europe. Having seen how they work, the Bank of Canada has invoked them now, and Fed Chair Janet Yellen, has put them “on the […]
Bank of Canada Crushes Loonie, Creates Mother of All Shorts
Bank of Canada Crushes Loonie, Creates Mother of All Shorts Clear winners: rich Chinese who buy homes in Canada. The Canadian dollar swooned 1% against the US dollar on Friday, to US$0.7270, after having gotten hammered for the past six of seven trading days. It’s down 5% in November so far, 15.5% year-to-date, and 31% from its […]
