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Oil Markets Tremble As Chinese Stocks Crash
Oil Markets Tremble As Chinese Stocks Crash China’s stock market fell sharply on Thursday, dragged down by a range of concerns that should offer a warning to the broader global economy. The Shanghai Composite Index fell nearly 3 percent on Thursday, falling to its lowest point in nearly four years. The problems in China are […]
IMF Issues Dire Warning – ‘Great Depression’ Ahead?
IMF Issues Dire Warning – ‘Great Depression’ Ahead? – “Large challenges loom for the global economy to prevent a second Great Depression” warn IMF – Massive government debts and eroded fiscal buffers since 2008 suggest global dominos await a single market crash – 2008 crisis measures cast long, dark “terrifying” shadow Is another “Great Depression” on the horizon? […]
Lies, Damn Lies & Statistics: How the US Weaponizes Them to Accuse China of Debt Trap Diplomacy
Lies, Damn Lies & Statistics: How the US Weaponizes Them to Accuse China of Debt Trap Diplomacy With China and Russia named as the two greatest threats to continuing American hegemony end of last year, the velvet gloves have come off the Washington establishment, baring their knuckles against the Middle Kingdom in plain view of […]
World Finance Leaders Scramble For A Solution To Escalating Trade War, Rising Rates
World Finance Leaders Scramble For A Solution To Escalating Trade War, Rising Rates The main takeaway from the IMF and World Bank Group annual meeting in Bali, which hosted financial ministers and central bank governors from around the world this weekend, was that global trade tensions were having a profound effect on global growth and […]
Stock Market Chaos Sparks Oil Selloff
Stock Market Chaos Sparks Oil Selloff The plunge in global equities on Wednesday and Thursday dragged down crude oil, with even concerns about falling Iranian supply not enough to keep crude from a steep selloff. Brent fell more than 1.2 percent on Wednesday and was down another 1.5 percent in early trading on Thursday, falling […]
IMF Warns About Emerging Markets: Hello “Always Late” IMF, Global Crisis Coming
IMF Warns About Emerging Markets: Hello “Always Late” IMF, Global Crisis Coming The IMF is finally warning that there may be an emerging market crisis. Hello IMF, it’s already here. Look ahead. The IMF is perpetually late in its forecasts. Here’s the latest hoot: IMF Warns of Possible Emerging-Markets Crisis. A new study by the […]
Severe US Recession Would Slash Public Wealth By $5 Trillion: IMF
Severe US Recession Would Slash Public Wealth By $5 Trillion: IMF As part of the IMF’s latest global economic forecast, which for the first time since 2016 saw the D.C.-based organization cut its global growth forecasts, the IMF warned that a severe recession would slash US public wealth by about $5 trillion, causing vastly more […]
IMF Slashes US Growth Outlook, Blames Rates & Trade; Sees Venezuelan Inflation 10-Million-Percent
IMF Slashes US Growth Outlook, Blames Rates & Trade; Sees Venezuelan Inflation 10-Million-Percent Confirming Director Lagarde’s warning that “clouds on the horizon have materialized,” The International Monetary Fund is downgrading its outlook for the world economy, citing rising interest rates and growing tensions over trade. The IMF said Monday that the global economy will grow […]
Spain: IMF Highlights Rising Risks
Spain: IMF Highlights Rising Risks The International Monetary Fund can be criticized for many things, but its analysis of countries’ debt risk tends to be worth a read. In this case, the International Monetary Fund has once again warned Spain of the risk of reversing reforms and increasing imbalances. It asks to deepen in the labor reform […]
World economy at risk of another financial crash, says IMF
World economy at risk of another financial crash, says IMF Debt is above 2008 level and failure to reform banking system could trigger crisis The floor of the New York stock exchange in September 2008. Photograph: Richard Drew/AP The world economy is at risk of another financial meltdown, following the failure of governments and regulators […]
Argentina Hikes Rates To 65% As Peso Plunges To New Record Low
Argentina Hikes Rates To 65% As Peso Plunges To New Record Low It appears the market is willing to test BCRA’s mettle as it pukes pesos down to a new record low against the greenback and pushes towards the bottom of its new “no intervention” band. The new record low is now 41.54/USD… While not […]
Argentina Gets Record $57 Billion As IMF Boosts Bailout, Creates “No Intervention” Zone For The Peso
Argentina Gets Record $57 Billion As IMF Boosts Bailout, Creates “No Intervention” Zone For The Peso Just a few months after the IMF announced in June what was a record-setting $50 billion, 36-month bailout agreement with Argentina, the International Monetary Fund said it would expand the credit line to $57 billion in an attempt to […]
Russell Napier: “The IMF Is About To Send A Profound Shudder Through A Generation Of Investors”
Russell Napier: “The IMF Is About To Send A Profound Shudder Through A Generation Of Investors” Bringing Up The Bodies in Emerging Markets ‘The order goes to The Tower, “Bring up the bodies.”’ — Bring Up The Bodies, Hilary Mantell (The Forth Estate, Jan 2015) For many investors the meltdown in emerging market exchange rates […]
Argentine President Admits “More Poverty” To Come, Announces Price Controls, Higher Taxes, Smaller Govt
Argentine President Admits “More Poverty” To Come, Announces Price Controls, Higher Taxes, Smaller Govt Having been told by The IMF that he must stop using their bailout funds to prop up his currency (which has been utterly futile), Argentine President Mauricio Macri addressed the troubled nation this morning to announce his plans to satisfy Christine […]
Peso Set To Disintegrate After IMF Tells Argentina To Stop Supporting Currency
Peso Set To Disintegrate After IMF Tells Argentina To Stop Supporting Currency On May 11, three days after Argentina secured a $50 Billion IMF bailout – the largest in the fund’s history – we jokingly noted that with the peso resuming its slide, an indication the market did not view the IMF backstop as credible, […]
