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“It Would Be An Earthquake” – Three Chinese Banks Tumble After US Threatens To Cut Them Off From SWIFT
“It Would Be An Earthquake” – Three Chinese Banks Tumble After US Threatens To Cut Them Off From SWIFT In news that initially did not receive much prominence, on Monday a US judge found three large Chinese banks — reportedly the state-owned Bank of Communications, China Merchants Bank, and Shanghai Pudong Development Bank — in […]
As China’s Banking System Freezes, SHIBOR Tumbles To Lowest In A Decade
As China’s Banking System Freezes, SHIBOR Tumbles To Lowest In A Decade One trading day after we reported that China was “Hit By “Significant Banking Stress” as SHIBOR tumbled to recession levels, and less than a week after we warned that China’s interbank market was freezing up in the aftermath of the Baoshang Bank collapse and subsequent seizure, which […]
More US Warships Arrive In The Mideast Even As Trump Signals Draw Down
More US Warships Arrive In The Mideast Even As Trump Signals Draw Down Despite Trump taking to Twitter Monday morning to question, “why are we protecting the shipping lanes for other countries (many years) for zero compensation,”and asserting further that “All of these countries should be protecting their own ships” — the US naval build-up in the Persian Gulf region […]
Google’s Chrome Web Browser “Has Become Spy Software”
Google’s Chrome Web Browser “Has Become Spy Software” Google’s Chrome is essentially spy software according to Washington Post tech columnist Geoffrey Fowler, who spent a week analyzing the popular browser and concluded that it “looks a lot like surveillance software.” Fowler has since switched to Mozilla’s Firefox because of its default privacy settings, and says that it was easier than one […]
Global Negative Yielding Debt Hits Record $12.3 Trillion
Global Negative Yielding Debt Hits Record $12.3 Trillion Somewhere, SocGen’s permabearish strategist Albert Edwards is dancing a jig, as every day that passes bring us every closer to his trademark “Ice Age.” One week after the universe of negative yielding debt regained its prior high of $11.7 trillion, overnight – thanks to the dovish capitulations by both the ECB […]
“The Dollar Is Becoming Toxic” – Russian Intel Chief Slams “Aggressive, Unpredictable” US Behavior With the latest TIC data showing China following Russia’s lead and reducing its US Treasury exposure (to two-year lows), as it increases its gold reserves (for six straight months), the unipolar US hegemon faces an ugly trend among the ‘rest of […]
Evacuations Ordered As Japan Issues Tsunami Alert After Large Offshore Quake
Evacuations Ordered As Japan Issues Tsunami Alert After Large Offshore Quake A large magnitude 6.8 quake has struck off the northwestern coast of Japan. Kyodo news reports that authorities have issued a tsunami alert… The quake hit at 22:22: 20 Japan time. NHK reports than people working at ports on the northwest coast of Japan should evacuate, as tsunami warnings […]
“This Has Never Happened Before”: Millions Without Electricity After Massive Blackout Cripples Argentina And Uruguay
“This Has Never Happened Before”: Millions Without Electricity After Massive Blackout Cripples Argentina And Uruguay Millions of people and entire cities descended into darkness as a massive, unprecedented power failure kept Argentina and Uruguay in the dark on Sunday morning, the same day as provincial elections were to be held in parts of Argentina. Parts […]
Meet “Gekko”: The Robot Bond Trader Being Developed By Quant Funds
Meet “Gekko”: The Robot Bond Trader Being Developed By Quant Funds We pointed out earlier this year that “factor based” quant funds were having difficulty finding strategies to beat the market – especially now that all quant funds are doing the same thing. But now, the computer scientists at Cantab Capital, based out of Cambridge, have taken […]
“Treason!” NYT Story Reveals US Cyber Ops Against Russian Power Grid Hidden From Trump
“Treason!” NYT Story Reveals US Cyber Ops Against Russian Power Grid Hidden From Trump President Trump has hurled the dire charge of “Treason” at the New York Times for its lengthy investigative piece alleging US intelligence has stepped up systematic cyber attacks on Russia’s power grid. “This is a virtual act of Treason by a once great paper […]
Goldman: Here’s Why The Fed Is About To Shock The Market
Goldman: Here’s Why The Fed Is About To Shock The Market As discussed earlier, and as both Bank of America and JPM explained, the biggest risk for the market next week is if the Fed not only doesn’t cut – the market assigns a very low probability to such a “pre-emptive” move – but fails to signal an aggressive […]
Japanese Tanker Owner Denies Ship Hit By Mine, Says Crew Saw “Flying Objects” Before Attack
Japanese Tanker Owner Denies Ship Hit By Mine, Says Crew Saw “Flying Objects” Before Attack For a moment on Thursday, it appeared that the US Navy had produced the ‘smoking gun’ to which Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had alluded during his statement from earlier in the day: CENTCOM footage which the Navy said purported to show […]
New Report Shows Plane-Sized Drones Are Coming To Skies Across America
New Report Shows Plane-Sized Drones Are Coming To Skies Across America Can you imagine? Plane sized autonomous delivery vehicles zooming above major metropolitan areas delivering goods that could radically transform the cargo industry. According to The Verge, delivery drones are being pilot tested across the country. In the last 5.5 months, Amazon has announced plans to deliver […]
UK Signs DOJ Request To Extradite Assange; Lengthy Legal Battle To Ensue
UK Signs DOJ Request To Extradite Assange; Lengthy Legal Battle To Ensue Early on Thursday UK home secretary Sajid Javid revealed that he has signed a US extradition request for Julian Assange, putting the WikiLeaks founder a step closer to facing prosecution for espionage and hacking on American soil, where he’s almost assured life in prison or worse after […]
Honey Bee Colonies Across Europe Plunge 16%, Says Study
Honey Bee Colonies Across Europe Plunge 16%, Says Study The total number of honey bee colonies across Europe plunged 16% over the winter 2017–18, according to COLOSS(Prevention of honey bee COlony LOSSes), an international, non-profit organization based in Switzerland, tasked with the goals of protecting honey bees. Allison Gray, the lead researcher on the study, sent a […]
