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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 […]
One Way to Unrig Stock Trading
One Way to Unrig Stock Trading AMERICA’S equity markets are broken. Individuals and institutions make transactions in rigged markets favoring short-term players. The root cause of the problem is that stocks trade on numerous venues, including 11 traditional exchanges and dozens of so-called dark pools that allow buyers and sellers to work out of the […]
Christmas Present
Christmas Present Theory du jour: the new Star Wars movie is sucking in whatever meager disposable lucre remains among the economically-flayed mid-to-lower orders of America. In fact, I propose a new index showing an inverse relationship between Star Wars box office receipts and soundness of the financial commonweal. In other words, Star Wars is all that remains of the US economy […]
Analyst Warns Of Turbulence: ‘Geopolitical Dislocations Could Result In Key Resource Supplies Disappearing’
Analyst Warns Of Turbulence: ‘Geopolitical Dislocations Could Result In Key Resource Supplies Disappearing’ Some of the world’s biggest investors have been taking significant positions in the commodity resource sector as of late, most notably in gold. With geopolitical tension and fear of economic breakdown reaching a near boiling point, it’s not difficult to see why. […]
Stock Market Crash October 2015? 9 Of The 16 Largest Crashes In History Have Come This Month
Stock Market Crash October 2015? 9 Of The 16 Largest Crashes In History Have Come This Month The worst stock market crashes in U.S. history have come during the month of October. There is just something about this time of the year that seems to be conducive to financial panic. For example, on October 28th, […]
Commodity Carnage Continues Amid Fears Of Glencore Liquidation
Commodity Carnage Continues Amid Fears Of Glencore Liquidation Despite a relatively unchanged US Dollar, commodities across the board are under significant (and seemingly coordinated) pressure this morning. It appears that the key selling began as Europe opened and the carnage in massive commodity group Glencore began to materialize. Glencore CDS is now above 700bps (up 154bps […]
2 days of gains push oil up 17%, TSX up 3.6%
2 days of gains push oil up 17%, TSX up 3.6% Global stocks calmer after a week of volatility set off by doubts about China’s growth After a week with wild swings in the values of stocks and commodities, oil futures ended up gaining 17 per cent in two days and the TSX was up […]
The Most Astounding Credit Binge in History
The Most Astounding Credit Binge in History Stripped Gears DELRAY BEACH, Florida – “The Donald” breathed a sigh of relief yesterday. He and other rich people got a break from the beating they’ve been taking: Stocks bounced, with the Dow ending yesterday’s session up more than 600 points. The gears have been stripped, and they […]
China share plunge drives selling in Asian, European markets
China share plunge drives selling in Asian, European markets Benchmark Shanghai Composite Index is down 38 per cent from its June 12 peak World stock markets plunged on Monday after China’s main index sank 8.5 per cent — its biggest drop since the early days of the global financial crisis — amid deepening fears over […]
12 Signs That An Imminent Global Financial Crash Has Become Even More Likely
12 Signs That An Imminent Global Financial Crash Has Become Even More Likely Did you see what just happened? The devaluation of the yuan by China triggered the largest one day drop for that currency in the modern era. This caused other global currencies to crash relative to the U.S. dollar, the price of oil […]
Birinyi’s S&P 3200 Call——Bull From A 30-Year Bull
Birinyi’s S&P 3200 Call——Bull From A 30-Year Bull When stock market guru Laszlo Birinyi told bubblevision today that S&P 3200 would be reached by 2017, his argument was essentially to keep on keeping on: “What we’re really trying to tell people is stay with it, don’t let the bad news shake you out…There’s no reason […]
Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble: When Authorities Buy Assets to Prop Up Markets
Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble: When Authorities Buy Assets to Prop Up Markets The Central Planners who thought that buying shares to prop up the stock bubble was an excellent fix are about to find out the true meaning of toil and trouble. The actual line from Shakespeare’s Macbeth is double, double, toil and trouble, fire burn, and […]
“We Reached The Tipping Point”: Income Inequality Is Highest Since Records Began
“We Reached The Tipping Point”: Income Inequality Is Highest Since Records Began While soaring stock prices do nothing to boost the economy, because as 7 years of hard facts have shown, the only thing “trickle down” QE has done is forced economists to jump the shark and demand not one but two seasonal adjustments to […]
Global Financial Markets Go Nuts
Global Financial Markets Go Nuts The global economy has, let’s say, some issues, including a slight demand problem. Growth has shifted into low gear in China and has stumbled in the US so far this year, while Europe has trouble wading out of the mire. But stock markets jubilated last week: Hong Kong’s Hang Seng soared a stunning […]
China Warns Against Irrational Exuberance
China Warns Against Irrational Exuberance Yesterday, we pointed out that in US dollar terms, Chinese stocks are a real standout among the world’s equity markets, having nearly doubled in less than a year. The catalyst? Liquidity, driven by a number of factors including, as UBS notes, expectations of further policy easing, QE-lite, bank bridge loans, and of course, […]
