Home » Posts tagged 'bloomberg' (Page 8)
Tag Archives: bloomberg
Volcker Recalls Another Time the Fed Was in the President’s Crosshairs
Volcker Recalls Another Time the Fed Was in the President’s Crosshairs The central banker’s memoir recounts an awkward encounter with Ronald Reagan. Reagan and Volcker in the Oval Office in 1981. PHOTOGRAPHER: J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE/AP PHOTO Donald Trump’s repeated public criticism of the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy seems extraordinary, but he isn’t the first president […]
This Is The Worst Case Scenario If Investors Dump Saudi Arabia
This Is The Worst Case Scenario If Investors Dump Saudi Arabia So many Wall Street CEOs and other titans of investing and industry have pulled out of next week’s “Davos in the Desert” conference that even the Ritz-Carlton, owner of the Riyadh venue hosting the conference (as it did last year), has been slammed by […]
Saudi Arabia Calls The End Of Russia’s Oil Prowess
Saudi Arabia Calls The End Of Russia’s Oil Prowess Saudi Arabia has not only called the end of Russia’s prominence as a global oil behemoth, but anticipates that Russia’s oil exports “will have declined heavily if not disappeared” within the next 19 years, Mohammed bin Salman said in a recent interview with Bloomberg. When asked […]
U.S. Shale’s Glory Days Are Numbered
U.S. Shale’s Glory Days Are Numbered There are some early signs that the U.S. shale industry is starting to show its age, with depletion rates on the rise. A study from Wood Mackenzie found that some wells in the Permian Wolfcamp were suffering from decline rates at or above 15 percent after five years, much […]
Forced Buy-Ins Spark “Liquidity Crisis” In China’s ‘Nasdaq’
Forced Buy-Ins Spark “Liquidity Crisis” In China’s ‘Nasdaq’ Marking the worst year since 2008, China’s tech-heavy (Nasdaq-equivalent) Shenzhen Composite index is down a shocking 35% year-to-date, and it’s starting to become a self-feeding vicious circle… As Bloomberg reports, the most recent slump in the teach-heavy index comes despite regulators’ efforts to rein in risks of […]
S&P Reveals $5.8 Trillion In “Hidden” Chinese Debt With “Titanic Credit Risks”
S&P Reveals $5.8 Trillion In “Hidden” Chinese Debt With “Titanic Credit Risks” When it comes to estimating China’s total outstanding debt, there has long been confusion about the real number with most putting the debt/GDP at around 250%, while the IIF last year calculated China’s debt load as high as 300% of GDP. Now, China […]
Meet The Finance Professor Exposing Rigged Markets One Academic Paper At A Time
Meet The Finance Professor Exposing Rigged Markets One Academic Paper At A Time Finance professor John Griffin, along with his doctoral student companion, Amin Shams, were the two academics that drew market-moving conclusions about bitcoin last year, while the digital currency was trading around $20,000. After sifting through 2 terabytes of trading data, they alleged that […]
The Fed’s Easy-Money Policies Aren’t Helping Income Growth
The Fed’s Easy-Money Policies Aren’t Helping Income Growth Back in August, Bloomberg interviewed Karen Petrou about her research on quantitative easing and the Fed’s policies since the 2008 financial crisis. What she has discovered has not been encouraging for people who aren’t already high-income, and in recent research presented to the New York Fed, she […]
“Preplanned Murder”: Turkey Says 15-Member Saudi Hit Team Murdered Journalist Inside Consulate
“Preplanned Murder”: Turkey Says 15-Member Saudi Hit Team Murdered Journalist Inside Consulate In a shocking twist to an already mysterious and bizarre saga, Turkish investigators say they believe that prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul after he entered on routine business four days ago. Khashoggi’s fiance, who was waiting outside […]
Greece Planning Bad Debt Bailout For Its Banks After Market Crash
Greece Planning Bad Debt Bailout For Its Banks After Market Crash It seems like it was just yesterday that Greek banks, which carry some €89BN of bad loans on their balance sheets, passed the ECB’s latest confidence building exercise, known as the “stress test.” In retrospect that may have been premature, because as Bloomberg reports, […]
Weekly Commentary: Portending an Interesting Q4
Weekly Commentary: Portending an Interesting Q4 “Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.” I’ll add that those that learn the wrong lessons from Bubbles are doomed to face greater future peril. The ten-year anniversary of the financial crisis has generated interesting discussion, interviews and scores of articles. I can’t help but […]
“We Have Really Lost Our Way” – Trader Laments Market’s Risk Ignorance
“We Have Really Lost Our Way” – Trader Laments Market’s Risk Ignorance “BTFD”, “Goldilocks”, “Climbing a wall of worry”, “Powell Put”, “Trump Put”, “It’s different this time.” The excuses to buy stocks – no matter what headline tape bomb explodes – grow longer and more desperate as asset-gatherers and commission-takers know the end is nigh […]
They Want You To Do As They Say, Not As They Do
THEY WANT YOU TO DO AS THEY SAY, NOT AS THEY DO “Facts are threatening to those invested in fraud.” ― DaShanne Stokes Insiders at US companies unloaded $5.7 billion of their company stock this month, the highest in any September over the past decade, according to TrimTabs Investment Research. Insiders, which include corporate officers […]
Why The Man Who Manages $1 Trillion Is Bracing For A “Trade Rupture”
Why The Man Who Manages $1 Trillion Is Bracing For A “Trade Rupture” While the rest of the market remains remarkably stoic about the potential threat from a long-lasting, escalating trade war with China, the world’s arguably biggest money manager is not so sure: according to Bloomberg, the man running the world’s biggest sovereign wealth […]
Ken Griffin: The Next Financial Crisis Will Hit In 12-24 Month
Ken Griffin: The Next Financial Crisis Will Hit In 12-24 Months With Ray Dalio predicting that the US has about 2 years until the next recession, earlier today the head of hedge fund Citadel, Ken Griffin, echoed the Bridgewater founder and predicted that there are “at least 18-to-24 months left in the market rally”, thanks […]
