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Deutsche Bank Is Scared: “What Needs To Be Done” In Its Own Words
Deutsche Bank Is Scared: “What Needs To Be Done” In Its Own Words It all started in mid/late 2014, when the first whispers of a Fed rate hike emerged, which in turn led to relentless increase in the value of the US dollar and the plunge in the price of oil and all commodities, unleashing […]
Death Throes Of The Bull
Death Throes Of The Bull The fast money and robo-machines keep trying to ignite stock rallies, but they all fizzle because bad karma is beginning to infect the casino. That is, apprehension is growing among whatever adults are left on Wall Street that 84 months of ZIRP and $3.5 trillion of Fed balance sheet expansion, aka money printing, […]
Wrong For The Right Reasons: And Why It Matters
Wrong For The Right Reasons: And Why It Matters There’s been a consistent theme of retort from many across the financial media. It consists of a two-sided response. The first sounds something like this: “How long have you been saying things were dire while the markets have continually risen?” This is a backhanded way of dismissing […]
Bear Necessities
BEAR NECESSITIES “At first sign of crisis, the ignorant don’t panic because they don’t know what’s going on. Then later they panic precisely because they don’t know what’s going on.” – Jarod Kintz. In a crisis, it helps to have good counsel. Investment strategist Mike Tyson is pretty good at summing up the problem: “Everyone […]
Italy, Greece, Financials Crash As European Stocks, Peripheral Bonds Plunge
Italy, Greece, Financials Crash As European Stocks, Peripheral Bonds Plunge Led by a broad-based collapse in financial stocks, European markets extended and accelerated their plunge today. Thanks to the increased systemic linkages enforced by The ECB, peripheral sovereign risk is spiking as their national banking systems crash. Every European nation is now in at least correction since the end […]
Welcome To The New Normal: The Dow Crashes Another 390 Points And Wal-Mart Closes 269 Stores
Welcome To The New Normal: The Dow Crashes Another 390 Points And Wal-Mart Closes 269 Stores Did you know that 15 trillion dollars of global stock market wealth has been wiped out since last June? The worldwide financial crisis that began in the middle of last year is starting to spin wildly out of control. On Friday, […]
The Dow Falls Another 364 Points And We Are Now Down 2200 Points From The Peak Of The Market
The Dow Falls Another 364 Points And We Are Now Down 2200 Points From The Peak Of The Market It was another day of utter carnage on Wall Street. The Dow was down another 364 points, the S&P 500 broke below 1900, and the Nasdaq had a much larger percentage loss than either of them. […]
Albert Edwards Hits Peak Pessimism: “S&P Will Fall 75%”, Global Recession Looms
Albert Edwards Hits Peak Pessimism: “S&P Will Fall 75%”, Global Recession Looms 2016 has thus far been a year characterized by remarkable bouts of harrowing volatility as the ongoing devaluation of the yuan, plunging crude prices, and geopolitical uncertainty wreak havoc on fragile, inflated markets. With asset prices still sitting near nosebleed levels after seven […]
2016 Will Be A ‘Cataclysmic Year’ And ‘Investors Should Be Afraid’
2016 Will Be A ‘Cataclysmic Year’ And ‘Investors Should Be Afraid’ The Royal Bank of Scotland is telling clients that 2016 is going to be a “cataclysmic year” and that they should “sell everything”. This sounds like something that you might hear from The Economic Collapse Blog, but up until just recently you would have never […]
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 […]
Bear Market: The Average U.S. Stock Is Already Down More Than 20 Percent
Bear Market: The Average U.S. Stock Is Already Down More Than 20 Percent The stock market is in far worse shape than we are being told. As you will see in this article, the average U.S. stock is already down more than 20 percent from the peak of the market. But of course the major […]
For Commodities, This Is The Next Great Depression
For Commodities, This Is The Next Great Depression While the “sell in 1973, and go away” plan had worked out for some in the commodity space, the destruction of the last decade has only one historical comparison… the middle of The Great Depression. The 10-year rolling annualized return for commodities is -5.1% – the lowest since 1938… During the same period […]
A Disturbing Warning From UBS: “Buy Gold” Because A 30% Bear Market Is Coming
A Disturbing Warning From UBS: “Buy Gold” Because A 30% Bear Market Is Coming As Wall Street axioms (Santa rally, January effect, as goes January etc.) are rapidly falling by the wayside at the start of 2016, following a chaotic but return-less 2015, the UBS analysts who correctly forecast last year’s volatility are out with […]
Has The Market Trend Shifted From Bull To Bear?
Has The Market Trend Shifted From Bull To Bear? Why the recent volatility may mark a secular shift Emotions are running high for the investment community in the wake of recent market volatility. Up until August, we had been in the third longest period in market history without a 10% correction. Since then, stock indices […]
Equity Markets and Credit Contraction
Equity Markets and Credit Contraction There is one class of money that is constantly being created and destroyed, and that is bank credit. Bank credit is created when a bank lends money to a customer; it becomes money because the customer draws down this credit to deposit in other bank accounts and to pay creditors. […]
