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The Real Reason Why Stock Markets Will Continue To Crumble This Year
The Real Reason Why Stock Markets Will Continue To Crumble This Year Public sentiment on the economy is generally influenced by to two false indicators — the national unemployment rate and stock markets. This is not to say the average person tracks either of these numbers very vigorously; they don’t. What they do is hear […]
The End of (Artificial) Stability
The End of (Artificial) Stability The central banks’/states’ power to maintain a permanent bull market in stocks and bonds is eroding. There is nothing natural about the stability of the past 9 years. The bullish trends in risk assets are artificial constructs of central bank/state policies. As these policies are reduced or lose their effectiveness, the […]
“Financial Stress” Spikes. Markets, Long in Denial, Suddenly Grapple with New Era
“Financial Stress” Spikes. Markets, Long in Denial, Suddenly Grapple with New Era Fed’s monetary policy shift is finally taking hold. It just took a while. The weekly St. Louis Fed Financial Stress index, released today, just spiked beautifully. It had been at historic lows back in November, an expression of ultra-loose financial conditions in the […]
How to Manipulate Stocks: Chinese Authorities Step in to Stop the Rout
How to Manipulate Stocks: Chinese Authorities Step in to Stop the Rout For proper effect, the directives were purposefully leaked to the media. The Shanghai Composite Index plunged 10.2% last week, the largest weekly drop in two years, and was down 11.4% since January 26. But it wasn’t just last week that things became unglued. […]
BIll Blain: “The Unintended Consequences Are Finally Coming Back To Bite Us”
BIll Blain: “The Unintended Consequences Are Finally Coming Back To Bite Us” Fundamentals ok, Technicals corrected, so why we should still be nervous on what comes next for markets… “If the apocalypse comes, tweet me..” That was an interesting week that was…. but what a hangover we face! What happened to the global bull stock […]
China’s Plunge Protection Team Arrives: Urges Companies To Boost Stocks, “Avoid Selling”
China’s Plunge Protection Team Arrives: Urges Companies To Boost Stocks, “Avoid Selling” Over the weekend, we along with Bank of America and probably most carbon-based traders wondered if any central bank or government official would step up on Monday and intervene in the markets, either verbally or directly. The answer emerged overnight, when China officially […]
What Just Changed?
What Just Changed? The illusion that risk can be limited delivered three asset bubbles in less than 20 years. Has anything actually changed in the past two weeks? The conventional bullish answer is no, nothing’s changed; the global economy is growing virtually everywhere, inflation is near-zero, credit is abundant, commodities will remain cheap for the […]
The stock market swoon and our hatred of (some kinds of) volatility
The stock market swoon and our hatred of (some kinds of) volatility The steepest one-day point drop in the history of the Dow Jones Industrial Average last week shook stock investors into an awareness that all is not sweetness and light in the financial markets. The sudden downside stock market volatility had been preceded by […]
“We Are Living In A Reality Distortion” Mark Spitznagel Warns “This Is Not Over Yet”
“We Are Living In A Reality Distortion” Mark Spitznagel Warns “This Is Not Over Yet” Just a week before the biggest spike in US equity market volatility ever – something ‘no one’ in the mainstream even thought possible – Universa’s Mark Spitznagel warned “a reckoning always follows…something really big is coming” This is an age […]
The Stock Market Swings Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Our Rigged Economy
Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images THE STOCK MARKET SWINGS TELL YOU EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT OUR RIGGED ECONOMY KARL MARX USED to say that unemployed people were capitalism’s reserve army. Though he didn’t invent the term, he meant that capitalism drew its strength from this army, standing at the ready to take a worker’s […]
Is A Massive Stock Market Reversal Upon Us?
Is A Massive Stock Market Reversal Upon Us? I have been saying it for years and I will say it again here — stocks are the worst possible “predictive” signal for the health of the general economy because they are an extreme trailing indicator. That is to say, when stock markets do finally crash, it […]
Blain: “Here’s Why This Gets Worse Before It Gets Better”
Blain: “Here’s Why This Gets Worse Before It Gets Better” Wobble continues. Does a Correction morph into a Crash? “They would never evolve. They shouldn’t have survived.…. Evolution was something that happened to other species..” Not looking like a positive morning out there. Stocks are down 10% – so officially it’s a correction! Markets are […]
Asia Crashes, Europe Slides, US Rebounds But Yields Resume Ominous Rise
Asia Crashes, Europe Slides, US Rebounds But Yields Resume Ominous Rise “$5 trillion was wiped out from global stocks this week.” After yesterday’s violent last hour plunge in US stocks, which also sent the VIX surging back to the mid-30s, the overnight session was somewhat muted, with European stocks falling further on Friday morning, but […]
“Worst Case Scenario” Emerging: Morgan Stanley Warns “Selling Has Shifted”
“Worst Case Scenario” Emerging: Morgan Stanley Warns “Selling Has Shifted” Confirming JPMorgan’s “worst case scenario” that forced de-levering in vol-based strategies would lead to retail ETF outflows and create a vicious cycle downwards, Morgan Stanley’s Christopher Metli warns that today’s moves lower are likely not being driven by systematic supply – this appears to be […]
