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The Oil Crash Of 2016 Has The Big Banks Running Scared
The Oil Crash Of 2016 Has The Big Banks Running Scared Last time around it was subprime mortgages, but this time it is oil that is playing a starring role in a global financial crisis. Since the start of 2015, 42 North American oil companies have filed for bankruptcy, 130,000 good paying energy jobs have been lost in the […]
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, […]
Lowest Ever: The Baltic Dry Index Plunges To 394 As Global Trade Grinds To A Standstill
Lowest Ever: The Baltic Dry Index Plunges To 394 As Global Trade Grinds To A Standstill For the first time ever, the Baltic Dry Index has fallen under 400. As I write this article, it is sitting at 394. To be honest, I never even imagined that it could go this low. Back in early August, […]
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. […]
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 […]
The Financial Crisis Of 2016 Rolls On – China, Oil, Copper And Junk Bonds All Continue To Crash
The Financial Crisis Of 2016 Rolls On – China, Oil, Copper And Junk Bonds All Continue To Crash Never before have we seen a year start like this. On Monday, Chinese stocks crashed once again. The Shanghai Composite Index plummeted another 5.29 percent, and this comes on the heels of two historic single day crashes last […]
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 […]
7 Percent Crash Causes Emergency Shutdown Of Stock Markets In China For The 2nd Time In 4 Days
7 Percent Crash Causes Emergency Shutdown Of Stock Markets In China For The 2nd Time In 4 Days Did you see what just happened in China? For the second time in four days, a massive stock market crash has caused an emergency shutdown of the markets in China. On both Monday and Thursday, trading was […]
Stock Markets All Over The World Crash As We Begin 2016
Stock Markets All Over The World Crash As We Begin 2016 The first trading day of 2016 was full of chaos and panic. It started in Asia where the Nikkei was down 582 points, Hong Kong was down 587 points, and Chinese markets experienced an emergency shutdown after the CSI 300 tumbled 7 percent. When European […]
2015 Was The Worst Year For The Stock Market Since 2008
2015 Was The Worst Year For The Stock Market Since 2008 It’s official – 2015 was a horrible year for stocks. On the last day of the year, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down another 178 points, and overall it was the worst year for the Dow since 2008. But of course the Dow […]
Financial Armageddon Approaches: U.S. Banks Have 247 Trillion Dollars Of Exposure To Derivatives
Financial Armageddon Approaches: U.S. Banks Have 247 Trillion Dollars Of Exposure To Derivatives Did you know that there are 5 “too big to fail” banks in the United States that each have exposure to derivatives contracts that is in excess of 30 trilliondollars? Overall, the biggest U.S. banks collectively have more than 247 trilliondollars of exposure to derivatives contracts. That is […]
January 1, 2016: The New Bank Bail-In System Goes Into Effect In Europe
January 1, 2016: The New Bank Bail-In System Goes Into Effect In Europe If you have a bank account anywhere in Europe, you need to read this article. On January 1st, 2016, a new bail-in system will go into effect for all European banks. This new system is based on the Cyprus bank bail-ins that […]
The Rate Hike Stock Market Crash Has Thrown Gasoline Onto An Already Raging Global Financial Inferno
The Rate Hike Stock Market Crash Has Thrown Gasoline Onto An Already Raging Global Financial Inferno If the stock market crash of last Thursday and Friday had all happened on one day, it would have been the 7th largest single day decline in U.S. history. On Friday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 367 […]
This Is What A Financial Crisis Looks Like
This Is What A Financial Crisis Looks Like Just within the past few days, three major high yield funds have completely imploded, and panic is spreading rapidly on Wall Street. Funds run by Third Avenue Management and Stone Lion Capital Partners have suspended payments to investors, and a fund run by Lucidus Capital Partners has […]
