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Stock & Bond Markets in Denial about QE Unwind, but Banks, Treasury Dept Get Antsy
Stock & Bond Markets in Denial about QE Unwind, but Banks, Treasury Dept Get Antsy “Let markets clear.” It’ll be just “a financial engineering shock.” Stock and bond markets are in denial about the effects of the Fed’s forthcoming QE unwind, whose kick-off is getting closer by the day, according to the minutes of the […]
Hell To Pay
SkillUp/Shutterstock Hell To Pay The final condition for a market crash is falling into place Sometimes I wonder if I’m ever going to run out of new things to say about the economy. Nothing interesting has happened in a long time. Our liquidity-drunk “markets” remain over-priced due to the chronic intervention of the global central […]
Why This Sucker Is Going Down——The Case Of Japan’s Busted Bond Market
Why This Sucker Is Going Down——The Case Of Japan’s Busted Bond Market The world financial system is booby-trapped with unprecedented anomalies, deformations and contradictions. It’s not remotely stable or safe at any speed, and most certainly not at the rate at which today’s robo-machines and fast money traders pivot, whirl, reverse and retrace. Indeed, every day there are new ructions […]
The Damage Has Been Done And The Consequences Will Be Suffered: “Have a Healthy Storage of Food, Precious Metals and Necessary Supplies”
The Damage Has Been Done And The Consequences Will Be Suffered: “Have a Healthy Storage of Food, Precious Metals and Necessary Supplies” While the band plays on and Americans celebrate New Year’s many have no idea what may be in store in 2016. Mainstream financial pundits like to paint a rosy picture of the current […]
Riskiest End of the Junk Bond Market Just Blew Up
Riskiest End of the Junk Bond Market Just Blew Up You wouldn’t know by looking at the US Treasury market, which remained relatively sanguine this week, with only a little panic buying on Tuesday. So 10-year Treasuries ended the week near where they’d started it. But at the other end of the spectrum, the riskiest […]
Acrid Smell of Burned Fingers Wafts through the Bond Market
Acrid Smell of Burned Fingers Wafts through the Bond Market Commodities had once again an ugly week. Copper hit the lowest level since June 2009. Gold dropped below $1,100 an ounce. Other metals dropped too. Agricultural commodities fell; corn plunged nearly 7% for the week. Crude oil swooned, with West Texas Intermediate dropping nearly 7% […]
The Liquidity Crisis Intensifies: ‘Prepare For A Bear Market In Bonds’
The Liquidity Crisis Intensifies: ‘Prepare For A Bear Market In Bonds’ Are we about to witness trillions of dollars of “paper wealth” vaporize into thin air? During the next financial crisis, a lot of “wealthy” investors are going to be in for a very rude awakening. The truth is that securities are only worth what […]
Bond Markets Herald an End to Cheap Government Debt
Bond Markets Herald an End to Cheap Government Debt Bond markets got choppy at the end of April, when institutional investors began lining up to bet against the market. Since then the situation has gotten worse for bond holders, as spiking yields in Germany, and even US Treasuries, have created a rush for the exit […]
Stay Out Of Harm’s Way—-The Casino Is Fixing To Blow
Stay Out Of Harm’s Way—-The Casino Is Fixing To Blow Shock waves have been rumbling through the global bond market in the last few days. On April 17 the yield on the 10-year German bund pierced through the 5bps level, but yesterday it tagged 100bps. That amounted to a 20X move in 39 trading days. It also amounted to total annihilation if you […]
Investors Start To Panic As A Global Bond Market Crash Begins
Investors Start To Panic As A Global Bond Market Crash Begins Is the financial collapse that so many are expecting in the second half of 2015 already starting? Many have believed that we would see bonds crash before the stock market crashes, and that is precisely what is happening right now. Since mid-April, the yield […]
The Rich Get Richer: Titanic Stock Bubble Fueled by Buyback Blitz
The Rich Get Richer: Titanic Stock Bubble Fueled by Buyback Blitz Why are stocks still flying-high when the smart money has fled overseas and the US economy has ground to a halt? According to Marketwatch: “For the eighth week in a row, long-term mutual funds saw more money flowing out of U.S. stocks and into international stocks, according […]
Experts Are Warning That The 76 Trillion Dollar Global Bond Bubble Is About To Explode
Experts Are Warning That The 76 Trillion Dollar Global Bond Bubble Is About To Explode Warren Buffett believes “that bonds are very overvalued“, and a recent survey of fund managers found that 80 percent of them are convinced that bonds have become “badly overvalued“. The most famous bond expert on the planet, Bill Gross, recently […]
