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Blain: “Are We Backing The Wrong Country In The Saudi-Iran Race”
Blain: “Are We Backing The Wrong Country In The Saudi-Iran Race” As excerpted from Blain’s Morning Porridge, submitted by Bill Blain Where do we go from here? I’ve said it a few times already – 2019 is likely to see the start of the New Market Reality. Although some pundits claim yesterday’s sell-off was due […]
Could GE’s Slow Collapse Ignite A Financial Crisis?
Could GE’s Slow Collapse Ignite A Financial Crisis? Will GE be the proverbial “black swan?” – It had come to my attention that General Electric was locked out of the commercial paper market three weeks ago after Moody’s downgraded GE’s short term credit rating to a ratings level (P-2) that prevents prime money market funds […]
Thoughts From The Precipice
Shutterstock Thoughts From The Precipice Things are worsening. But we’re not over the edge quite yet. As you already know, things are unraveling. The narratives of the past are being revealed as false and fraudulent — even harmful. For example, the fallacy of pursuing “ever more” growth. Growth up to a point is beneficial, but […]
Holiday Doings and Undoings
Holiday Doings and Undoings Somehow I doubt that this Christmas will win the Bing Crosby star of approval. Rather, we see the financial markets breaking under the strain of sustained institutionalized fraud, and the social fabric tearing from persistent systemic political dishonesty. It adds up to a nation that can’t navigate through reality, a nation […]
Economic Turmoil Could Send Oil Even Lower
Economic Turmoil Could Send Oil Even Lower Global financial markets are once again throwing up some warning signs, as the selloff in equities entirely erased the gains made in U.S. stock markets for 2018. The economic and financial turmoil could bleed over into a broader slowdown, which raises pitfalls for oil prices. The risks to […]
Coffee Sellers Are Not Fundamentally Different From Banks
COFFEE SELLERS ARE NOT FUNDAMENTALLY DIFFERENT FROM BANKS With the 2007-8 financial crisis came a splendid alphabetical soup of central bank interventions to stimulate financial markets, lower interest rates, provide astonishing amounts of liquidity to banks and, allegedly, prevent another Great Depression. Likening the failure of big banks to falling elephants crushing even the smallest grass, […]
Stock Market Crash: The Dow Has Fallen Nearly 2,500 Points And FAANG Stocks Have Lost A TRILLION Dollars In Value
Stock Market Crash: The Dow Has Fallen Nearly 2,500 Points And FAANG Stocks Have Lost A TRILLION Dollars In Value Thanksgiving week was not supposed to be like this. Normally things are slow in the days leading up to Thanksgiving as investors prepare to gorge themselves with turkey and stuffing as they gather with family […]
Does the Market Need a Heimlich Maneuver?
Does the Market Need a Heimlich Maneuver? For all we know, the panic selling is Wall Street’s way of forcing the Fed’s hand: stop with the rates increases already or Mr. Market expires. Markets everywhere are gagging on something: they’re sagging, crashing, imploding, blowing up, dropping and generally exhibiting signs of distress. Does the market […]
Bank of America: Selling Will Continue, “Big Low” For Stocks Is Yet To Come
Bank of America: Selling Will Continue, “Big Low” For Stocks Is Yet To Come Many economists and financial analysts have said that the economy isn’t doing as well as the talking heads on TV are proclaiming. And now, even the Bank of America says it’s time to prepare for an even lower stock market, as […]
“A Sea Of Red”: Global Stocks Plunge With Tech Shares In Freefall
“A Sea Of Red”: Global Stocks Plunge With Tech Shares In Freefall While there was some nuance in yesterday’s pre-open trading, with Asia at least putting up a valiant defense to what would soon become another US rout, this morning the market theme is far simpler: a global sea of red. Stocks fell across the […]
Global Oil Price Deflation 2018 and Beyond
Global Oil Price Deflation 2018 and Beyond Photo Source wongaboo | CC BY 2.0 One of the key characteristics of the 2008-09 crash and its aftermath (i.e. chronic slow recovery in US and double and triple dip recessions in Europe and Japan) was a significant deflation in prices of global oil. After attaining well over […]
“A Daisy Chain Of Defaults”: How Debt Cross-Guarantees Could Spark China’s Next Crisis
“A Daisy Chain Of Defaults”: How Debt Cross-Guarantees Could Spark China’s Next Crisis On November 8, China shocked markets with its latest targeted stimulus in the form of an “unprecedented” lending directive ordering large banks to issue loans to private companies to at least one-third of new corporate lending. The announcement sparked a new round […]
The Broken Clocks’ Minute
The Broken Clocks’ Minute Sometimes the reasons you’re wrong turn out to be the reasons you’re right. Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Old Wall Street adage Anyone who has consistently sounded cautionary or outright bearish notes during the last nine years of relentlessly rising equity markets has been cast aside. Wall […]
The Wolf Street Report
THE WOLF STREET REPORT Market Exuberance Ends, Pain Starts In the 14 months from the presidential election through January 2018, the Dow soared 49%. Housing prices soared too. The real economy followed. Consumers went on a spending spree. But now, this phenomenon — the surge in exuberance among consumers, investors, homebuyers, speculators, business-decision makers, and […]
Bear Market Growls As Market Remains Weak 11-16-18
Bear Market Growls As Market Remains Weak Several months ago, I penned an article about the problems with “passive indexing” and specifically the problem of the “algorithms” that are driving roughly 80% of the trading in the markets. To wit: “When the ‘robot trading algorithms’ begin to reverse (selling rallies rather than buying dips), it will […]
